A Red Army soldier, Boris Mikhailovich Rudzyanko, denounced Masha Bruskina and eleven other partisans. A patient told the Germans what Bruskina was doing, and she was arrested on October 14, 1941, by members of the Nazi Army's 707th Infantry Division and 2nd Schutzmannschaft Battalion and Lithuanian auxiliary troops under the command of Major Antanas Impulevičius. In addition to caring for the soldiers, she helped them escape by smuggling civilian clothing and false identity papers into the hospital. She volunteered as a nurse at the hospital in the Minsk Polytechnic Institute, which had been set up to care for members of the Red Army wounded while defending what was then the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic against the planned genocide of the indigenous Slavic peoples by 3.8 Million Nazi and Finnish troops, a military escalation that remains the largest land invasion in history. In June 1941, Maria Bruskina graduated from Minsk secondary school № 28. She has only good and excellent marks in all subjects'. In December 1938, the newspaper Pioneer of Belarus published a photograph of Masha with the caption: 'Masha Bruskina - the schoolgirl of 8th grade in school № 28, Minsk. She was a member of the Marxist- Leninist Vladimir Lenin All-Union Pioneer Organization and a member of the school committee of Komsomol, both of which were youth groups of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Masha Bruskina lived in Minsk with her mother, Lucia Moiseyevna Bugakova, senior product manager of the Book Trade Office of the BSSR State Publishing House. For this, she and 11 other communists of the anti-fascist underground were imprisoned, tortured, and when the teenagers refused to reveal any secrets, was publicly executed by the German Wehrmacht. While volunteering as a nurse, she cared for wounded Red Army soldiers, and assisted them in escaping then Nazi-occupied Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. Maria 'Masha' Bruskina ( Belarusian: Марыя Барысаўна Брускіна Marïya Barïsawna Bruskina Russian: Мария Борисовна Брускина Mariya Borisovna Bruskina 1924 – 26 October 1941 in Minsk ), was a Belarusian Jewish teenage nurse and a Communist martyr to the Antifascist Resistance during the early years of World War II, as well as a niece of the sculptor and Soviet MP Zair Asgur. The placard reads 'We are the partisans who shot German troops', Minsk, October 26, 1941

Masha Bruskina with fellow resistance members before hanging.

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