Local German authorities decided on a public hanging to make an example of Bruskina.

Masha Bruskina part 2 Local German authorities decided on a public hanging to make an example of Bruskina, along with two other members of the resistance, 16-year-old Volodia Shcherbatsevich and World War I veteran Kiril Trus. 


They were hanged on Sunday, October 26, 1941, in front of “Minsk Kristall” a yeast brewery and distillery plant. 

Before being executed, 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," although they had actually not. 

They walked calmly and Masha did not look around. The officer threw a rope on the crossbar and made a loop. Masha was the first one led to the gallows. 



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Pyotr Pavlovich Borisenko witnessed the execution: "When they put her on the stool, the girl turned her face toward the fence. 


The executioners wanted her to stand with her face to the crowd, but she turned away and that was that. 


No matter how much they pushed her and tried to turn her, she remained standing with her back to the crowd. 


Only then did they kick away the stool from under her." Masha fought and struggled fiercely in the noose, far longer than her compatriots did. 


And, despite her fierce resolve, lost control of both her bladder and bowels and soiled herself badly in front of the entire crowd of onlookers. 


After hanging for three days, she was taken down and before her burial her body was traditionally washed by local people and members of her family. 


For decades after the war, Bruskina was officially referred to only as "the unknown girl," allegedly due to antisemitism from Soviet authorities.


 Her name was not acknowledged on the memorial plaque at the execution place. 


However, in 2009, a new plaque was placed with the inscription: "Here on October 26, 1941 the Fascists executed the Soviet patriots K. I. Truss, V. I. Sherbateyvich and M.B. Bruskina." 


Masha was first recognized in the 1960s, as most of her family and friend had been killed in the Minsk ghetto. 


A monument for Bruskina was erected in HaKfar HaYarok in Israel and a street was named after her in Jerusalem.


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