Masha Bruskina

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Masha Bruskina (1924 - 26 October 1941 Minsk) was a 17-year-old Soviet Jewish partisan who was a volunteer nurse. She was arrested on October 14, 1941, by members of the Wehrmacht's 707 Infantry Division and the 2nd Schutzmannschaft Battalion[1]; Lithuanian auxiliary troops under the command of Major Antanas Impulyavichus. Along with two other members of the resistance, 16 year-old Volodia Shcherbatsevich and World War I veteran Kiril Trus, she was betrayed as being partisans in Minsk, Byelorussian SSR, in October 1941. After being arrested, Bruskina, wrote a letter to her mother on October 20, 1941.