Periklis Kallidopoulos

Periklis Kallidopoulos was a Hellenic Army officer who reached the rank of major general, before entering politics. During World War II, he was active in the Greek Resistance, and is honoured as a "Righteous Among the Nations" by Yad Vashem.

Life He was born at Thessaloniki, then still under Ottoman rule, in 1878. He studied in the Hellenic Army Academy, graduating in 1896 as an infantry second lieutenant.

During the Axis occupation of Greece, he was active in the Greek Resistance.

Together with his son , he helped save their Jewish neighbours, the Cohen family, by bringing them food and money during their confinement to the Thessaloniki ghetto, and then helping them escape the city, either to join the Resistance, or to Athens, which lay in the safer Italian zone of occupation. In recognition of this, Kallidopoulos and his son were named among the "Righteous Among the Nations" by Yad Vashem in 1989.