The untold story of Lela Karagianni #history #greece #ww2

Lela Karagianni (1898-1944) was a mother of seven living in Athens when Germany occupied Greece in 1941. She sheltered and fed Allied (British and Commonwealth) soldiers trapped in Greece and helped them escape. Her group grew into a resistance network she named after Laskarina Bouboulina, the heroine of the Greek War of Independence; her children carried messages. In July 1944 she was arrested, and some of her children were also detained. She was interrogated and tortured; according to accounts, she never gave up names. On 8 September 1944 she was executed at Haidari camp with other prisoners. German forces left Athens on 12 October 1944. A street in Athens bears her name. PHOTO CREDITS: Lela Karagianni early photograph; German troops in Syntagma Square, 1941; British troops in Athens, October 1944 (IWM TR2510); Bouboulina engraving by Adam Friedel, 1830: public domain. Lela Karagianni portrait and her cape (Athens War Museum): via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Her house in Athens (DIMSFIKAS): CC BY-SA 3.0. German soldiers in Athens (Bundesarchiv Bild 101I-164-0368-14A): CC BY-SA 3.0 DE. Haidari camp Block 15 today: via Wikimedia Commons. 7 scenes are AI-generated reconstructions for moments with no surviving photographs; the people in them are anonymous figures, not portraits of the real individuals. #hiddenhistory #lelakaragianni #greece #ww2 #greekresistance #athens #womeninhistory #forgottenhistory #historyshorts #untoldhistory #truestory #terrastories