was born in Istanbul in 1912 to a wealthy family
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Her father, Charilaos Koutsouris, was a well-known dermatologist and had his own clinic in Istanbul.
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With the beginning of the First World War,
her family comes to Greece, while her father's clinic is looted within a short period of time.
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She is a student at the Medical School of the University of Athens and continued her studies in Paris and London.
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During the Occupation, she actively participated in the National Resistance and at the risk of her life.
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issues hundreds of fake IDs to get Jews to flee,
hides resistance fighters in her house and in other big bourgeois houses,
even helps the ELAS....
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After the war, the English recognized her resistance activities and gave her a scholarship.
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even give her a job,
at the Wright Fleming Institute next to a Nobel Prize-winning microbiologist.
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Somewhere in there a love affair develops between the Greek “nutcracker” and the Nobel laureate,
but
the Nobel laureate is married and so the karyatissa leaves and returns to Greece
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in Athens, she is entrusted with the management of the Evangelismos.
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In 1953, the Nobel laureate's wife has died and the Greek woman invites the Nobel laureate to give a lecture in Athens.
there their love is rekindled and
is getting married,
but
but the marriage lasts only two years because the Nobel Prize winner dies.
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in 1969, at the beginning and in the most difficult and hard years of the junta,
together with Michalis Rapti (Pablo)
help Kitty Arsenis and Pericles Korovesis
to leave Greece
and
to testify to the European Commission of Human Rights about torture in our country.
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but the regime is on to her and is watching her
so
In 1971, when he participates in the escape attempt of Alexandros Panagoulis, he is arrested.
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four security guards put her in a military car against her will, (photo)
and they take it to the NSA.
torture follows, but he doesn't break,
so they court-martial her (as if she were a soldier)
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international furor erupts over the widowed wife of the Nobel laureate who was Cher,
and so she too held the title of Lady,
that way
the Junta fearing the repercussions,
deports her and removes her Greek citizenship.
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goes to London and returns to Greece after the fall of the junta,
where he becomes a witness for the prosecution in the court of the EAT-EESA torturers.
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Her testimony in court about the torture she was subjected to is epic
and for the damage to her health that would accompany her forever
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in 1977 he was elected as a state deputy with PASOK and continued in ’81 and ’85
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Today, February 26, 1986, a great Greek woman dies,
Amalia Fleming
