Lepa Radić

Lepa Radić (1943)

Lepa Svetozara Radić (Serbian Cyrillic : Лепа Светозара Радић; born December 19, 1925 in Gašnica near Bosanska Gradiska , Yugoslavia ; † February 8, 1943 in Bosanska Krupa) was a Yugoslav freedom and underground fighter. She was arrested, tortured and hanged by the German armed forces at the age of 17 . On December 20, 1951, Lepa Radić was posthumously awarded the Order of Folk Heroine .

Life

After primary school, Lepa Radić went to Bosanska Krupa's home economics school. Her uncle Vladeta Radić was politically active in the union and strongly influenced it. She joined the Communist Youth of Yugoslavia and, at the age of 15, the Communist Party of Yugoslavia . On April 10, 1941, the Wehrmacht marched into Bosnia as part of the Yugoslavia offensive of the Balkan campaign . In November, Lepa and some of her family members were arrested. On December 23, she escaped with her sister Dara. She joined the 7th partisan company . At the beginning of February 1943 she organized ambulance transports to a hiding place during the Battle of Neretva and fought as a partisan against the 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division "Prinz Eugen", known for its brutality and war crimes . She was arrested, sentenced to death after a few days of torture , and hanged.

Lepa Radić before the execution

Allegedly, with the noose around her neck, she shouted: “Long live the Communist Party and the partisans!” When the occupiers offered her freedom, if she gave the hiding place and names of her comrades, Lepa Radić is said to have said: “I will betray my own People don't. They will reveal themselves when they have exterminated you henchmen down to the last man. "

Web links

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Individual evidence

↑ Jasmina Čaušević: Women documented: women and public life in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 20th century . Sarajevski otvoreni centar, Sarajevo 2014, ISBN 978-9958-536-19-9 , p. 46 f .
↑ NARODNI HEROJI JUGOSLAVIJE - Radić Svetozara Lepa. Retrieved March 10, 2018 .
↑ Bosnian: "Savez komunističke omladine Jugoslavije"
↑ The hanging execution, usually improvised on the branch of a tree, was a common punishment for many women of the resistance. In her book Lefties published by iUniverse in 2012, Karmel Arbelaitz names Maria Kislyak and Zoya Anatolyevna, among others, who also fought underground and who met the same fate.

personal data
SURNAME	Radić, Lepa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Radić, Lepa Svetozara (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Yugoslav freedom and underground fighter
DATE OF BIRTH	December 19, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH	Gašnica near Bosanska Krupa , Yugoslavia
DATE OF DEATH	February 8, 1943
Place of death	Bosanska Krupa

[1] Jasmina Čaušević: Women documented: women and public life in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 20th century . Sarajevski otvoreni centar, Sarajevo 2014, ISBN 978-9958-536-19-9 , p. 46 f .

[2] NARODNI HEROJI JUGOSLAVIJE - Radić Svetozara Lepa. Retrieved March 10, 2018 .

[3] Bosnian: "Savez komunističke omladine Jugoslavije"

[4] The hanging execution, usually improvised on the branch of a tree, was a common punishment for many women of the resistance. In her book Lefties published by iUniverse in 2012, Karmel Arbelaitz names Maria Kislyak and Zoya Anatolyevna, among others, who also fought underground and who met the same fate.