UTW 76

The Sea monsters and 2 Russian teenage anti-Nazi partisans executed by the Third Reich's occupation military in Belarus, 1941  

Media: Pencil, ink, watercolor, colored pencil
Framed: 22 1/8 inch H x 18 1/8 W [56.75 cm. H x 46.03 W]
art: The drawing was made January 10 to January 24, 2023

See the Description text in the UTW gallery of this drawing including from the following; The USHMM website includes text info about Marina Bruskin. /  

The largest allegorical sea monster, at top center, was inspired by images in this book, which I bought at a charity thrift shop in Britain: La Structure et La Biologie des oissons, par Louis Roule, pub. 1930 by Les Editions Reider, Paris, France. /  

The birds wings were inspired by 2 color photos in the 2002 published hardcopy calendar titled Splendid Wings 2002. The wing drawn at viewers left of the portrait of Bruskina, was inspired by the photo in the May page, of a wing of a sandpiper. The wing at viewers right, around the portrait of Shcherbatsevich, inspired by the February calendar section, of a western flicker. The calendar was published by the AOU (American Ornithologists Union), with credits to the Burke Museum, University of Washington, Seattle, and to the North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences.  

Masha Bruskina, Volodia Shcherbatsevich were anti-Nazi Russian national partisans. They were executed by the Nazis, Oct. 26, 1941, Belarus (also known as Belorussia).  His name is sometimes spelled (in English as) Volodya Sherbateyvich. She was 17, born 1924. He was 16.  A World War I veteran, Kiril Trus, was also executed. Those three were the first anti-Nazi partisans from the USSR to be executed by the Nazis. 

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The following is excerpted from the website of the USHMM, Washington, DC: Bruskina was a seventeen year-old Jewish woman who had resided in the Minsk ghetto during the summer of 1941. She was living as a non-Jew on the Aryan side when she was captured. In the months before her arrest she worked as a medical assistant in a hospital that the German army had converted into a prison camp for wounded Soviet POWs. In league with resistance groups operating near Minsk, she smuggled in civilian clothing and false documents for escaping Soviet officers. Following her arrest by German troops she was imprisoned and tortured. Unable to make her yield under torture, the Germans then paraded Bruskina and her two Belorussian cohorts through the streets of Minsk wearing signs that read "We are partisans who shot German soldiers." They were then publicly hanged and their bodies left for several days to serve as a deterrent to would-be resisters. 

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The largest allegorical sea monster, at top center, was inspired by images in this book, which I bought at a charity thrift shop in Britain: La Structure et La Biologie des Poissons, par Louis Roule, pub. 1930 by Les Editions Reider, Paris, France. 

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The birds wings were inspired by 2 color photos in the 2002 published hardcopy calendar titled Splendid Wings 2002. The wing drawn at viewers left of the portrait of Bruskina, was inspired by the photo in the May page, of a wing of a sandpiper. The wing at viewers right, around the portrait of Shcherbatsevich, inspired by the February calendar section, of a western flicker. The calendar was published by the AOU (American Ornithologists Union), with credits to the Burke Museum, University of Washington, Seattle, and to the North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences.  

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