Masha Bruskina

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Masha Bruskina (1924 - 26 October 1941 Minsk) was a 17-year-old Soviet Jewish partisan who was captured by the Germans along with two others (Volodya Sherbateivich and Krill Trous) for killing a German soldier in Minsk, Byelorussian SSR, in October 1941. Before being hanged, she was paraded through the streets with a plaque around her neck which read (in both German and Russian): "We are partisans and have shot at German troops". She and her two comrades were hanged in public on October 26, 1941, in an improvised manner, adjacent to a yeast factory.

[edit] See also

• Belarusian resistance during World War II
• Jewish partisans
• Belarusian partisans

[edit] References

• Cholawski, Shalom. "Minsk", in Encyclopaedia of the Holocaust vol. 3, p. 975. Captioned photograph of Masza Bruskina's hanging.

[edit] External links

• The Harvest, a musical based on the life of Masha Bruskina
• Eyewitness accounts of her execution
• Nechama Tec and Daniel Weiss: "A Historical Injustice: The Case of Masha Bruskina". Holocaust and Genocide Studies 11:3 (1997), p. 366-377. Online abstract
• Hanging Belarusian Partisans in Minsk (Belarus, U.S.S.R.) on 10/26/1941 (Set Four)