My great grandfather came to Athens around 1860 from Vissani, a village in Epirus, south of Albania. As tradition had it, each village in that mountenous region was turned to a different trade or craft, and his village produced bakers. He had a bakery on Astingos street in the Monastiraki neighborhood of Athens. My grandfather’s bakery was nearby, on Hiphaistou street. Constantine, my father, played national league soccer with the Apollo team and became an electrician. He operated his motor winding workshop but later bought a printing shop. He joined the Resistance against dictator Metaxas in the 1930s. During the Nazi occupation he organized the network of clandestine printing shops producing leaflets calling the people to revolt. When the Civil War began in 1946 he was arrested by the royalists and court-martialed “for conspiring to overthrow the regime.” He was condemned to death and spent several months in the death cell, while he was offered the chance to save his life by signing a declaration against his beliefs. His brothers finally bribed the military judges, who revised his sentence to life imprisonment. He was released 10 years later under the reconciliation measures, together with two other members of his family who had also fought in the Resistance and the Civil War.