be killed, but there are those who will avenge me!" In her last moments at the scaffold, the Germans offered to spare her life, in return for the names of the Communist Party leaders and members in the shelter, but she refused their offer with the words: "I am not a traitor of my people. Those whom you are asking about will reveal themselves when they have succeeded in wiping out all you evildoers, to the last man." Lepa Radić was only 17 years old when she was publicly executed. Gallery References Further reading External links Lepa Radic at Find a Grave 1925 births 1943 deaths Female resistance members of World War II People from Gradiška, Bosnia and Herzegovina People executed by Nazi Germany by hanging People murdered in the Independent State of Croatia Recipients of the Order of the People's Hero Resistance members killed by Nazi Germany Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Women in the Yugoslav Partisans Yugoslav Partisans members Executed Yugoslav people