Also known as Maria da Fronteira, she is a landmark in the promotion of ‘Mulheres Ciganas’ in Portugal.
Manolis Glezos, the first European partisan.
THIS STORY WAS TOLD TO US BY OUR ESC VOLUNTEER: ALEXIA, 25 YEARS OLD, FROM GREECE.
Manolis Glezos is considered the first partisan to have removed the flag with the swastika of Nazi Germany from the Acropolis in Athens on the night of 30 May 1941, together with his friend Apostolos Sadas. A man who became a symbol and who is particularly known for his resistance action during the Second World War. After the end of the Nazi occupation, his left-wing political convictions and activism cost him three death sentences. His imprisonment and torture was a matter of international concern and he was finally released from prison only in 1971.
After the restoration of the dictatorship in Greece (in 1974) he joined some left-wing parties. In the elections of 25 May 2014 he was elected MEP with over 430,000 votes, more than any other candidate in Greece.
Manolis worked as editor-in-chief for the left-wing newspapers ‘Rizospastis’ and ‘Avgi’, which are famous to this day. During his life he received many awards in recognition of the importance of his actions. In particular, in 1958 he received the International Journalism Prize, in 1959 the Golden Metal Zolio Kiuri of Lenin Peace Prize and in 1963 he received the Lenin Peace Prize.
The word ‘truth’, in Greek aletheia, means ‘rejection of lethè’, rejection of oblivion. And oblivion is the worst thing that can happen to those who, in the ranks of the Resistance, fought the Third Reich throughout Europe. Can we forget the past? There is no way. He who forgets the past is lost and has no future.
Manolis Glezos died at the age of 97 in 2020, General Charles De Gaulle had called him ‘the first resistant of Europe’.
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ESC FACTOR, Stories of Europe:
The communication campaign ESC FACTOR, Stories of Europe was born from the experience of a workshop on multi-channel communication that further enriched the personal background of the young volunteers of the ESC project, European Solidarity Corps who have been living for months at Il paguro Ostello, a small house for young Europeans, a property confiscated from the Casalesi family in which Giosef Italy has created a youth hostel, in Casapesenna.
During the past few months, the young people involved have had the opportunity to learn about the history of Italy, through a series of meetings whose main theme was the history of the Antimafia.
From the realisation that such an important and well-known history in our country is often ignored by other young Europeans, this project was born.
We said to ourselves, what if we now tell our readers stories that changed the history of your home countries but are not known by the Italian public?
Thus was born the idea of THE ESC FACTOR, a project to share stories of movements and people who have only one thing in common: the courage of freedom, the desire for justice, the fight for the affirmation of civil rights, in all their forms, beyond all borders.
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