Èvangeliya Kladu

Evangelia Kladou was a Greek Partisan and a member of the Communist Party of Greece.

Evangelia Kladou
Native name	Ευαγγελία Κλάδου
Born	1919 (1919) Anogeia, Crete, Greece
Died	December 6, 1949(1949-12-06) (aged 29–30)
Allegiance	Communist Party of Greece Democratic Army of Greece
Conflicts	World War II Greek resistance Greek Civil War †

Life Before World War II

Evangelia was born in 1919 in Anogia, a village near Anogeia, to a poor family of six children. Her father was a postal worker. She later attended the Arsakeio Pedagogical Academy In Athens and earned a teacher's degree and was appointed to teach in Myriokefala in 1940.

World War II

After the Nazi takeover of Crete she helped Allied troops escape Crete. In 1942 she joined National Liberation Front but remained as a teacher until 1944 and joined the Greek People's Liberation Army.

Greek Civil War and death

In March 1946 she was arrested after leading The pan-agrarian strike in Chania. After her arrest she joined the Democratic Army of Greece and became a captain in the organization. After Operation Pyrsos she retreated and hid in a cave with her unit but was killed in an ambush on by the Hellenic Army on December 6, 1949 she was then beheaded and her head carried around to local villages to send a warning to local villagers.