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Lepa Radić: Teenage Anti-Fascist Hero of Occupied Yugoslavia
Lepa Radić was a teenage Yugoslav resistance fighter whose courage made her one of the most iconic symbols of anti-fascist resistance in World War II. Born in 1925 in Gašnica, in today’s Bosnia-Herzegovina, Lepa grew up in a politically active family deeply rooted in communist ideals. When Nazi Germany and its allies invaded Yugoslavia on 6 April 1941, her world changed forever. The collapse of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, followed by brutal occupation and the rise of fascist terror, pushed thousands into the underground resistance — and Lepa was one of them. Arrested by the Ustaša regime in…
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