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Vournazos’ Book Shows Greek Women of Resistance

vournazosNikos Vournazos pursued his studies on Literature at the University of New England, at 78 years old. Today he is 87 years old and writing books, including his new story story about Greek women of the resistance during WWII that was launched in the packed hall of the Aigialeia Brotherhood of Melbourne.

Vournazos was born in 1924 in Chrysanthio of Aigialeia. During the German occupation he was affiliated with EAM – ELAS but fired in 1945 after the Varkiza agreement. In 1955 he immigrated to Australia.

The subject matter in his new book according to the general secretary of the Australian Institute of Macedonian Studies, Professor Panagiotis Gogidis, is the Greek woman in “stone years,”, in the decade 1940-1950, the years of the foreign occupation, the resistance of Greeks against Nazis, Germans, Italians and Bulgarians, as well s the civil war that followed liberation.

During this decade, as Greece passed one of the most critical times, Greek women put up fierce fights and proved equal to men. They became resistance fighters, provided assistance to the injured and were involved in sabotage and protests.

The first part of this strongly anti-war book is accompanied by a bibliography of 25 books. These Greek women are presented in the second part of the book by Vournazos with a short biography of each one and examples of their stuggles.

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