page_title: Angelos Evert
section_title: Righteous Among the Nations
hierarchical_section_title: Angelos Evert / Righteous Among the Nations
caption_attribution_description: English: forged identity card with christian alias which provided to Eva Alhanati (alias in the ID as Evangelia Alexiou) , a greek jewish woman who lived in Athens during axis powers occupation.
context_page_description: Angelos Evert was a Greek police officer, most notable for serving as head of the Athens branch of the Cities Police during the Axis Occupation of Greece during World War II.
context_section_description: At the end of 1943, during the Holocaust in Greece, Police Chief Evert ordered the forging of thousands of identity cards to Athenian Jews under which described them as Greek Orthodox Gentiles. Contributed to saving many belonging to Jewish community in the city. His actions are well known in the State of Israel and in 1969 he was awarded the letter "Righteous Among the Nations" by the Institute of "Yad Vashem".
  Angelos Evert later testified that he drew his inspiration from the actions, words, and deeds of Archbishop Damaskinos of Athens, who had urged the Greek people to save the remaining Jews of Greece.
caption: Identity card forged by Police Chief Evert which falsely identifies Eva Alhanati, a Greek Jewish woman, as a member of the Greek Orthodox Church named Evangelia Alexiou.
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