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Jan 01, 1920 Florina, West Macedonia Region, Greece Died on 03 May 1942 (aged 22)
Yugoslav partisan
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About Elpida Karamandi
- Elpida Karamandi was born on 1 January 1920, in Florina, Greece in an Aromanian family.
- Her mother was divorced from her husband and moved to her relatives in Bitola, then in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, where she remarried.
- Elpida grew up and was educated in Bitola and later continued her studies in Belgrade, where she became a member of SKOJ in 1939.
- When the Second World War began, Elpida was back in Bitola.
- In June 1941 she joined the Yugoslav Communist Party, but her activities were detected by the Bulgarian police and she was arrested.
- On her release Elpida resumed her resistance work against the occupiers. In April 1942 she left Bitola and joined the First Bitola Partisan detachment.
- On 3 May 1942, the detachment was surrounded by the Bulgarian police.
- Heavily wounded, Elpida Karamandi was captured, and later died in Bulgarian captivity.
- She was declared a Yugoslav national hero on 11 October 1951.
