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*[[February 4]]: [[Kostas Perrikos]], resistance leader | *[[February 4]]: [[Kostas Perrikos]], resistance leader | ||
*[[February 27]]: [[Kostis Palamas]], poet | *[[February 27]]: [[Kostis Palamas]], poet | ||
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| + | *[[June 6]]: [[Pantelis Pouliopoulos]], Greek communist leader | ||
[[Category:Years]] | [[Category:Years]] | ||
[[Category:1943]] | [[Category:1943]] | ||
Revision as of 07:59, May 7, 2007
Events
January
- January 14: Major Ioannis Tsigantes, leader of the resistance movement Midas 614, is slain during a battle with Italian carabinieri.
February
- February 4: Kostas Perrikos, head of resistance group PEAN is executed by the Germans.
March
- March 5: Dozens of Greeks are killed during a protest against conscription by the occupying Axis powers.
- March 6: ELAS guerrilas attack a convoy of Italian occupation troops at Fardykampos near Siatista, Macedonia. They capture 600 prisoners and much war materiel.
- March 15: The first convoy of Greek Jews leaves for Auschwitz.
- March 20: Italian occupation troops execute several Greeks in Kastoria, western Macedonia. Among those killed is the local priest Father Ch. Papachristou.
July
- July 13: German occupation troops burn down the village of Kefalovryso, Ioannina prefecture, Epirus. Among those executed is the village priest.
- July 22: Thousands protest in Athens against the expansion of the Bulgarian occupation zone in Macedonia.
August
- August 16: The village of Kommeno, Arta prefecture, is destroyed by the Germans. 317 of its inhabitants are slain.
- August 18: The last convoy of Thessaloniki Jews arrives in Auschwitz concentration camp.
September
- September 14: Greek guerrilas, belonging to the EKKA resistance movement, attack and defeat a group of German soldiers at Skaloula. Five Germans are killed and nearly 20 are wounded.
- September 14: Germans destroy 11 villages in Heraklio prefecture. 352 villagers are killed.
- September 26: The RHS Vasilissa Olga is sunk off the coast of Leros by German bombers.
- September 30: 10 Greeks are executed in Patra by the Nazis.
October
November
- November 7: German Nazi forces destroy the larger part of Karpenisi by setting it on fire.
- November 26: German occupying forces execute 118 hostages in Monodendri, Laconia.
December
- December 13: The Holocaust of Kalavryta takes place as German soldiers execute 1,101 villagers.
- December 14: Elias Venezis' book "Aeolian Land" ("Αιολική Γη") is published.
Births
May
- May 17: Viki Moscholiou, singer
July
- July 15: Loukianos Kilaidonis, singer, songwriter
October
- October 19: Takis Economopoulos, football player
Deaths
January
- January 14: Ioannis Tsigantes, resistance leader
- January 17: Antonis Travlantonis, author.
February
- February 4: Kostas Perrikos, resistance leader
- February 27: Kostis Palamas, poet
June
- June 6: Pantelis Pouliopoulos, Greek communist leader