Masha Bruskina was a teenage female partisan in Minsk in Russia. She was a 17 year old Jewish high school graduate and was the first teenage girl to be publicly hanged by the Nazis in Belorussia (Byelarus). Her execution took place on the 26th of October 1941 in the city of Minsk.
She worked as a nurse in a military hospital, and was a member of an underground cell which aided Soviet officers hospitalized there to escape and join the partisans. The members of this cell were informed on and quickly rounded up. Masha and two of her male comrades, Volodya Sherbateivich and Krill Trous, were sentenced to death. They were led through the streets with Masha wearing a large placard proclaiming that they were partisans and hanged one at a time, Masha first, by the 707 Infanterie division who meticulously filmed the proceedings
