workingclasshistory:

On this day, 3 January 1925 anti-Nazi resistance martyr Juliana Matveevna Gromova was born in the village of Pervomaysky in Ukraine. Aged just 17 when the Nazis occupied her home province, she organised a local underground resistance group of young people in her village. Tragically, she was arrested the following year during a mass roundup of suspected partisans. Attempting to learn the names of her comrades the Nazis brutally tortured her: she was whipped with metal, burned with hot irons, had skin and body parts cut off with salt rubbed in the wounds, her arm and ribs were broken and her hair was torn out but she refused to disclose a single name. All the while, she continued to give cheer to her fellow prisoners by reciting poetry. She was executed in 1943 and thrown down a mine. After the war her body was recovered, buried with other partisans and she was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1312346415617172/?type=3