Masha Bruskina
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Masha Bruskina was a 17-year-old Soviet Jewish partisan who was captured by the Germans along with 2 others for killing a German soldier in Minsk, Belorussia, 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.
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- Cholawski, Shalom. "Minsk", in Encyclopaedia of the Holocaust vol. 3, p. 975. Captioned photograph of Masza Bruskina's hanging.
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- 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
