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Generation 5 · born in Greece

Thanasis M. Laskaris

Athanasios M. Laskaris · known as Kapetanios Thanasis

Teacher and resistance leader

Born
1919, Zoupena, Greece
Died
1944, Mistra, Greece

Before the war Thanasis taught in Zoupena, admired by his pupils for his intelligence and kindness. Among them were his cousins Koula (opens in a new tab), Georgia (opens in a new tab) and Helen Lambros (opens in a new tab).

He joined the resistance to the German and Italian occupation and became a well-known partisan leader. He was killed in 1944 in the battle of Mistra, a siege of several weeks after collaborators released from jail in Sparta took refuge in the fortress.