George Aristides Tzitzikas, Freedom and glory
The 3rd volume in the series Testimonials series περιλαμβάνει τα απομνημονεύματα (1939-1945) του Γεωργίου Τζίτζικα από τη συμμετοχή του στη μάχη κατά των Γερμανών στα ελληνοβουλγαρικά σύνορα, τη Μάχη της Κρήτης στο Ρέθυμνο και την Αντάρτικη Ομάδα του Πετρακογιώργη στον Ψηλορείτη.
Excerpt from the book:
[…] In the meantime the Germans had advanced and they were among those Germans who certainly entered Agios Georgios, in the famous cemetery of Pervolia in Rethymno. So when I heard the woman shouting “Greeks, Greeks! I have a gun”, I shouted “Greeks, Greeks!” and with our voices we approached each other, In the middle of the night I see a tall, slender woman*, dressed in dark - long black dark dresses - holding a gun in her right hand, fire, revenge, and in the other hand a little child of about four or five years old, a little boy. This woman held revenge, fire, death in one hand, and love, life for her child in the other and she says to me:
– My husband is a soldier in Albania and until it was daylight I was fighting the Germans. Now that it is evening I have to go somewhere to look after my child. Take my rifle and give it to whoever doesn't have one.[…]
