Eleni (Lela) Karagianni was a Greek resistance fighter during the German occupation and the leader of the ‘Bouboulina’ organization.
She was born in 1898 in a village of Evia but spent most of her life in Athens. There he married and had seven children.
During the German occupation she became a member of the resistance. In 1941 she created the organization ‘Bouboulina’, of which he was the leader. She also financed it and turned her house into a headquarters and weapons depot. The aim of the organization was sabotage, the escape of soldiers and espionage. The daring Lela organized her own espionage network to monitor the movements of the Germans.
In October 1941 she was arrested and imprisoned for seven months.
In 1944 she became an associate of the “Apollo” spy network. This made her known to the authorities for this and she was arrested along with her five children. They were tortured during their detention.
Also in the same year he was executed together with 59 other fighters in the grove of Haidari.
She was posthumously awarded the ‘Prize of Virtue and Self-Sacrifice’. In 2020 she was still awarded the rank of ‘Brigadier of Honor’. In Athens there is the street ‘Lela Karagianni’ and in the House Lela Karagianni there is a bust of it since 1963.
[Source: el.wikipedia.org]
