Eleni Gkatzogianni (1907 - August 28, 1948)
The 28th of August 1948, was the date of one of the many massacres and atrocities, committed by the communists during their despicable insurgency inside Greece following WW2. Sometimes this conflict is known as the “Greek Civil War”.
This particular massacre occurred in the village of Lias, Thesprotia, Epirus. Mother of 5 Eleni Gkatzogianni, was one of the many who fell victim. On trumped up charges, she was sentenced and then executed by a communist firing squad.
Her “crime”, was protecting her children from the παιδομάζωμα. The communist policy of abducting and kidnapping Greek children and sending them off to Communist countries – Albania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Poland, Russia – to be indoctrinated and raised as Anti-Greeks and to become "Good Communists", to return to Greece at a later time, when a new socialist people’s republic of Greece was created.
This was all part of a plan to break Macedonia, Epirus, Thrace, off from the rest of Greece and bring it into a Pan-Yugoslav Communist realm.
Before her execution, Eleni managed to save her 5 children, who escaped to America. One of those children, Nikolaos, known professionally as Nicholas Gage, became a famous Author and Investigative Journalist in the United States. He would as an adult, shine a light on what happened in Greece following WW2.
Nicholas Gage, is known for his best-selling book "Eleni", which was also later turned into a feature film in 1985. Which centred around the communist insurgency in Greece and Gage's return to Greece many years later as an adult, to discover what happened to his mother and to confront her killers.
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