About the Author

About the Author

Evdokia Foteva - Vera was born on August 2nd, 1926 (Ilinden) in the village Dmbeni, Kostur Region, to a family with a revolutionary tradition. Vera completed her primary education in her native village so that after that she could attend high school in Kostur. Unfortunately because of the break-out of the Greek-Italian war her education was interrupted and she became actively involved in the resistance movement. She participated in the Anti-Fascist war (WWII) and in the Greek Civil War, during which she occupied prominent leadership positions in the organizations OKNE (Communist Youth Organization in Greece), NOF (National Liberation Front), AFZH (Women’s Anti-Fascist Front), etc. After DAG (Democratic Army of Greece) was defeated in 1949, she, along with a dozen in the top Macedonian leadership, was blamed for “losing” the war and since then began her agony and ordeal on which the main subject of this book is based. Her “episode” in the Soviet Union ended in the summer of 1956, after which she moved and since then has lived in Macedonia. For her merits in the Anti-Fascist and the Greek Civil War she was decorated with a number of awards, accolades and praises, plaques, certificates and acknowledgments from military associations and other social, cultural and educational organizations and associations.