Lepa Radić

Lepa Svetozara Radić (Serbian Cyrillic: Лепа Светозара Радић) (1925–1943) was a partisan executed at the age of 17 for shooting at German soldiers during World War II.[1] She was the youngest winner of the Order of the People's Hero of Yugoslavia, which was awarded posthumously on 20 December 1951.

References

  1. ^ Jancar-Webster, Barbara (1990). Women & revolution in Yugoslavia, 1941-1945. Arden Press. p. 100. ISBN 0912869100. http://books.google.com/books?id=rjkqAAAAYAAJ.