{"id":291,"count":12,"description":"Written by Ada Kapola &amp; Aggeliki Christodoulou\r\n\r\n<hr \/>\r\n\r\nVictoria Theodorou, poet and resistance fighter, was born in 1926 in Chania. She suffered family difficulties and poverty, while the beginning of World War II found her actively supporting the Greek troops by gathering supplies. She experienced the Battle of Crete and despite her initial timidity, she joined the EPON at the age of 15, participating in social and combat activities and eventually attempting to go to the mountains to help the guerrillas. At the end of the war, she tried to start her studies but her resistance past led to persecution and exile, with her steadfastly refusing to sign repentance statements. Her literary works, including poetry collections and autobiographical novels, became vehicles for expressing the suffering and resistance of both herself and her fellow exiles. After the fall of the Junta, she returned to university, where she earned a degree in literature. She died in 2019.","link":"https:\/\/aski.gr\/wire\/exhibition\/theodorou\/","name":"Victoria Theodorou (1926 - 2019)","slug":"theodorou","taxonomy":"exhibition","meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aski.gr\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aski.gr\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aski.gr\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/exhibition"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/aski.gr\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/panel?exhibition=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}