Resistance Fighter Lepa Radić

The Yugoslav Partisan was executed 83 years ago today at the age of 17.

In February 1943, Lepa Radić was captured while organizing a rescue of 150 citizens seeking refuge from the Axis. She attempted to protect them by firing at the Nazi SS forces but was eventually arrested. After 3 days of isolation + torture, during which Radic refused to divulge any information, the Germans sentenced her to death by hanging. Moments before her execution Radic was offered a pardon if she revealed the names. Her response: “I am not a traitor of my people. Those whom you are asking about will reveal themselves when they have succeeded in wiping out all you evildoers, to the last man.”

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The story of #GunnarSønsteby, a #resistancefighter in #WWII starring #SjurVatneBrean. An extra star for an excellent ending!

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Frieda Belinfante (1904-1995) was an openly homosexual Dutch cellist & conductor of Jewish descent. During the War, Belinfante joined the same resistance movement as Willem Arondeus and other Dutch homosexuals & artists specializing in forging false identity papers & helping those wanted by the Gestapo into hiding. Belinfonte aided in organizing the 1943 bombiing of the Population Registry in Amsterdam. After the perpetrators were turned in by an unknown informant Belinfante fled Holland, dressed as a man, through Belgium & France to Switzerland. Once the war ended she was able to continue her musical career.

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A resistance fighter under Nazi Germany in WWII, artist Eva Schulze-Knabe (1907-1976) was twice sent to a concentration camp - the second time to a life term in a labour camp. Her husband Fritz Schultze was sentenced to death and executed. This self portrait is from 1929.

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