Vera Kharuzhaya | |
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Born | 27 September 1903 Babruysk, Russian Empire |
Died | November 1942 Vitebsk, Reichskommissariat Ostland | (aged 39)
Allegiance | Soviet Union |
Awards | Hero of the Soviet Union Order of Lenin Order of the Red Banner |
Vera Kharuzhaya (Belarusian: Вера Харужая, Russian: Ве́ра Заха́ровна Хору́жая, Polish: Wiera Charuża, 27 September 1903 – November 1942) was a Belarusian Communist writer, school teacher and activist from the Soviet Union deployed to Poland for sabotage and espionage operation during the interbellum. She was executed as a partisan by the Germans during World War II.