On this day, 19 December 1925, Lepa Svetozara Radić was born in Bosanska Gradiska, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Radic became a communist and joined the anti-Nazi partisans aged 15 in 1941. She was captured in 1943 while organising a rescue of around 150 women and children attempting to escape the fascists.
At the scaffold, the Germans offered to spare her life if Radić gave up the names of her comrades, but she responded: “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.”
The executioner subsequently reported that the “bandit” had “shown unprecedented defiance”.
The Yugoslav partisans eventually successfully defeated the Nazis the fascist Ustashe regime.
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