Protopresbyter Dimitrios Holevas, more commonly known as Papa-Holevas, was a Greek Orthodox priest who was a member of the Greek People’s Liberation Army (ELAS), a leftist resistance movement against the Axis occupation of Greece during WW2, 1942–1945. [630×722]
A priest in leftist movement. A rare sight indeed.
skrilledcheese
Nice, thanks for this OP, I hadn’t heard of this guy.
Allow me to repay you with one of my favorite stories of Greek resistance during Nazi occupation. It happened on the island of Zakynthos.
>During the Nazi occupation of Greece, Mayor Loukas Karrer and Bishop Chrysostomos refused Nazi orders to turn in a list of the members of the town’s Jewish community for deportation to the death camps. Instead they secretly hid the town’s 275 Jews in various rural villages and turned in a list that included only their own two names. The entire Jewish population survived the war.
Yeah, cool but a lot of those guys left their wives in the villages to go hide out in the mountains. It was they, the women, who had to deal with a lot of brutality of the war and occupation…. Lot of good and bad with these guys. The book and movie Eleni touches on this period in a very impactful way.
![Protopresbyter Dimitrios Holevas, more commonly known as Papa-Holevas, was a Greek Orthodox priest who was a member of the Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS), a leftist resistance movement against the Axis occupation of Greece during WW2, 1942–1945. [630x722]](https://i.redd.it/7il5jq6o57s41.jpg)
TheLastOfTheReal
A priest in leftist movement. A rare sight indeed.
skrilledcheese
Nice, thanks for this OP, I hadn’t heard of this guy.
Allow me to repay you with one of my favorite stories of Greek resistance during Nazi occupation. It happened on the island of Zakynthos.
>During the Nazi occupation of Greece, Mayor Loukas Karrer and Bishop Chrysostomos refused Nazi orders to turn in a list of the members of the town’s Jewish community for deportation to the death camps. Instead they secretly hid the town’s 275 Jews in various rural villages and turned in a list that included only their own two names. The entire Jewish population survived the war.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysostomos_of_Zakynthos
wyzapped
Yeah, cool but a lot of those guys left their wives in the villages to go hide out in the mountains. It was they, the women, who had to deal with a lot of brutality of the war and occupation…. Lot of good and bad with these guys. The book and movie Eleni touches on this period in a very impactful way.