The tragedy became part of the Albanian folk song repertoire relating to the migration of Albanians abroad.
The leading figures of this practice were local intellectuals called rapsods related the mythistory of kurbet before World War II with the migration.
They make use of metaphors and performance devices taken from oral folk poetry and death laments which react on the migrations to fix them in the memory of the community.
This became a tool for responding to the loss of life for the tragedy of Otranto and other tragic events.

Parts of Kateri i Radës were transported to a concrete platform in the port of Otranto as a monument to the tragedy.
The project cost €150 thousand and was entrusted to the Greek sculptor Costas Varotsos.
Before the project, what was left of the ship lay in a corner of the port of Brindisi.
The project was titled L'Approdo.
Opera all'Umanità Migrante (The Landing.
A work dedicated to Migrating Humanity).
Photographers Arta Ngucaj and Arben Beqiraj published photographs of the ship on the Albanian-Italian newspaper Shqiptari i Italisë.
The families of the dead requested for the relics of Kateri i Radës to be placed in Albania after Italian media reported that it was to be used as a monument.
The tragedy became part of the Albanian folk song repertoire relating to the migration of Albanians abroad. The leading figures of this practice were local intellectuals called rapsods related the mythistory of kurbet before World War II with the migration. They make use of metaphors and performance devices taken from oral folk poetry and death laments which react on the migrations to fix them in the memory of the community. This became a tool for responding to the loss of life for the tragedy of Otranto and other tragic events.
Parts of Kateri i Radës were transported to a concrete platform in the port of Otranto as a monument to the tragedy. The project cost €150 thousand and was entrusted to the Greek sculptor Costas Varotsos. Before the project, what was left of the ship lay in a corner of the port of Brindisi. The project was titled L'Approdo. Opera all'Umanità Migrante (The Landing. A work dedicated to Migrating Humanity). Photographers Arta Ngucaj and Arben Beqiraj published photographs of the ship on the Albanian-Italian newspaper Shqiptari i Italisë. The families of the dead requested for the relics of Kateri i Radës to be placed in Albania after Italian media reported that it was to be used as a monument.
Tragedy of Otranto