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Eleni “Λέλα Καραγιάννη” Minopoulou Karagianni

1898 – 1944

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Eleni "Lela" Karagianni (Greek: Λέλα Καραγιάννη) National Resistance Heroine executed in WWII by the Nazi Army of Occupation The wife of pharmacist Nikolaos Karagiannis and the mother of seven children, she worked to coordinate Greek resistance cells and their activities against the occupying Axis forces. Captured and tortured by the Germans in 1944, she was sent to Haidari concentration camp, where she continued to organize resistance against the Germans. She was executed by firing squad. Her body was retrieved secretly by family friends and interred in the Second Cemetery. Lela Karagianni received numerous posthumous awards. Her name has been given to a street in central Athens (Lelas Karagianni St., formerly Limnou St.), close to her house, now a protected monument. On 18th June 2020 the Hellenic Republic in recognition of her wartime activities and self-sacrifice appointed her an honorary brigadier.