Iro Konstantopoulou

Iro Konstantopoulou ( ; 1927–1944) was a member of the Greek resistance during World War II. She worked with the resistance in Greece to oppose the Axis occupation of the country for three years before being captured, tortured, and executed in September 1944.

Biography Konstantopoulou was born into a wealthy Greek family in 1927. She was 13 when the Axis powers invaded and occupied Greece during the Second World War. Iro joined the United Panhellenic Organization of Youth, a Greek resistance movement, in which she worked to steal messages and monitor troop movements. She was caught performing these activities, but was able to avoid punishment due to her father bribing local authorities.

In early 1944 Iro was involved in a successful resistance operation to blow up a train carrying ammunition; soon after, a double agent working within the Greek resistance revealed her identity to the German occupational forces. Iro was arrested on her way home from high school on 31 July 1944; according to one source, she had finished her final high school exams that morning. In 1981, Iro's life was depicted in the Greek film 17 Bullets for an Angel: The True Story of Hero Konstantopoulou.