1941, Nazi soldiers came [music] to take her grandmother’s cattle. When the old woman resisted, they beat her. A 15-year-old girl watched. Her name was Zenida [music] Portnova. She never forgot. Two years later, she got a job in a Nazi kitchen, then poisoned their food. 100 [music] soldiers died.

The Nazis suspected her, so she ate the poisoned food in front of them. They let her go. She nearly died but survived. Months [music] later, the Gestapo captured her. They put a pistol on the table to threaten her. She grabbed it, shot the interrogator, shot two [music] guards, tried to escape. The gun misfired.

She was recaptured, tortured for weeks, [music] never gave up her comrades, executed at 17. One month before her 18th birthday, youngest woman ever named hero of the [music] Soviet Union. Her resistance group, the Young Avengers.