Martha. Masha bruskina was born in 1924 to a Jewish family in the city of Minsk, Belarus.After the German occupation of Minsk in July 1941, seventeen-year-old Martha joined the Resistance. She volunteered to work in the hospital as a nurse, secretly caring for the wounded of the Red Army under the eyes of the Germans, and providing civilian clothes and fake identity cards to help them escape.
On October 14, she and two gay men from the Resistance were arrested by the Germans and tortured for several days without betraying their comrades.
To warn the Minsks, the German 707th Infantry Division decided to hold a public hanging. Martha and two gay men were taken to the streets, with a large sign hanging from her body and her hands tied behind her back. The parade was carefully filmed. Martha and her two comrades calmly walked all the way to under the gallows.
When the noose was put on, the German soldiers asked Martha to face the camera, but she turned her body around, and the soldiers pushed her several times. It wasn't until the stool at her feet was kicked away that she was turned to face the camera. On October 26, 1941, in the city of Minsk, Martha. Broskina and two of her comrades were hanged and the bodies hung for days to warn the local population.
Martha wrote to her mother in prison: What disturbs me is that you are worried about me. It's okay, it's already happened and I swear there won't be anything worse. If possible, please bring my green shirt and white socks with me and I will leave in decent clothes.