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Key facts
- Native name
- Лепа Радић
- Born
- Lepa Svetozara Radić , ( 1925-12-19 ) 19 December 1925, Gašnica , Bosanska Gradiska , Yugoslavia
- Died
- 8 February 1943 (1943-02-08) (aged 17), Bosanska Krupa , Yugoslavia
- Allegiance
- Yugoslavia
- Branch
- Yugoslav Partisans
- Service years
- 1941–1943
- Unit
- 7th company, 2nd Krajiški Detachment
- Conflicts
- World War II in Yugoslavia Kozara Offensive Battle of Neretva
- Awards
- Order of the People's Hero
- Relations
- Svetozar Radić (father), Milan Radić (brother), Dara Radić (sister), Vladeta Radić (uncle)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Yugoslavia
- Place of birth
- Gašnica
- Place of death
- Bosanska Krupa
- Occupation
- partisan
- Political party
- League of Communists of Yugoslavia
- Languages spoken
- Serbian
- Conflict
- World War II in Yugoslavia
- Military branch
- Yugoslav Partisans
- Image
- Lepa Radić crop.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1925-12-19
- date of death
- 1943-02-08
- Commons category
- Lepa Radić
- cause of death
- hanging to death
- manner of death
- capital punishment
- killed by
- Nazi Germany
- last words
- Живјела Комунистичка партија и партизани! Бори се, народе, за своју слободу, не дај се зликовцима у руке! Мене нека убију, имаће ко да ме освети!
- name in native language
- Лепа Радић
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Encyclopedic overview
Lepa Svetozara Radić (Serbian Cyrillic: Лепа Светозара Радић; 19 December 1925 – 8 February 1943) was a Yugoslav Partisan and communist of Bosnian Serb origin who was posthumously awarded the Order of the People's Hero in 1951 for her role in the resistance movement against the Axis powers in the Second World War—becoming the youngest recipient at the time. She was executed at the age of 17 for shooting at German troops. As her captors tied the noose around her neck, they offered her a reprieve from the gallows if she would reveal her comrades' and leaders' identities. She responded that she was not a traitor and that her comrades would reveal themselves when they avenged her death.
Early life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lepa Radić” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.