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08-06-2009, 02:29 AM
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WWII-Era Public Hangings: Minsk, Kharkiv, and the Stutthof Trials
On October 26, 1941, Masha Bruskina, a resistance nurse aged 17, Kiril Trus and Volodia Shcherbatsevich, aged 16, were publicly executed by hanging in Minsk. Their deaths were among the earliest public executions after Germany invaded the USSR. The placard read, 'We are partisans and have shot at German soldiers.' Another hanging took place outside Kharkiv on June 18, 1943, when 18-year-old Ukrainian underground member Mariya Kislyak and two comrades were executed; she was later named a Hero of the Soviet Union. The often mislabelled execution at Biskupia Gorka in Gdansk on July 4, 1946 involved convicted Stutthof camp personnel, among them five female SS overseers. It was a post-war judicial execution, not a wartime killing. |
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08-06-2009, 03:25 AM
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Re: WWII-Era Public Hangings: Minsk, Kharkiv, and the Stutthof Trials
Your grandma was an amazing woman to survive that. My uncle was in a POW camp over there and the only thing he talked about was how they would hang people on meat hooks until they died. He never got over that. |