Nitsa Chatzigeorgiou

A heroine of our liberation struggle of EOKA who gave herself wholeheartedly to the struggle, was tortured by the English who physically and mentally destroyed her, but who after the end of the struggle was slandered, ridiculed and humiliated by some who were afraid of her beauty.

Nitsa was a girl of dazzling beauty who did not go unnoticed. She lived with her mother and ran a hair salon. Her fellow competitors assigned her dangerous missions, which she undertook with great enthusiasm. Her greatest mission was the transport of Grigoris Afxentiou from Pentadaktylos to the Troodos mountains. Kyriakos Matsis was driving and Afxentiou and Nitsa sat in the back. As soon as they came across a roadblock, Nitsa coolly pulled Grigoris into her arms and hid his face in her wavy hair and began to kiss him. When the English stopped them, she winked at them and showed them the two young people who were kissing. The English smiled slyly and motioned for them to pass. They succeeded.

Because she was very beautiful, she was used in kidnappings of Englishmen who would be exchanged for future fighters, as Chief Digenis had ordered. Nitsa Chatzigeorgiou willingly agreed to lure an Englishman to her house, where fighters would be waiting to kidnap him. From a bar frequented by Englishmen, she brought an officer to her house, with the intention of putting a sleeping pill in the soft drink he would treat him to. The sleeping pill, however, did not work, so Nitsa suggested that they meet the next day. Indeed, the next day he entered the bedroom and began to take off his clothes. Then, two fighters rushed in and executed him, because he was armed. From then on, her torture began. She was taken to Omorfita¹ twice and was reduced to a physical and mental wreck by torture and humiliation, and then imprisoned in the Central Prison².

On March 11 - 1968, the tragic activist was found dead in her bed, with an icon of the Virgin Mary and the Holy Bible on her chest. The coroner attributed her death to strangulation. She was assumedly killed on 11.3.1968

This is the story of a Christian young woman who, with self-denial and heroism, offered enormous services to the EOKA Struggle, but was betrayed, slandered, and her name tarnished by envy and intolerance. May her memory be eternal!