Lepa Radić: the brave 17-year-old woman who stood up to Nazis before she was hung
And her famous last words
3 min readJun 2, 2022
In 1941, the Axis powers invaded Yugoslavia where 15-year-old Lepa Radić was living. Despite her age, Lepa joined the Yugoslav Partisans to fight back. She had no idea that her acts of bravery would end with her on a noose and her name in history books.