Marija Bursać, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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First woman proclaimed a People's Hero of Yugoslavia
Date of Birth: 02-Aug-1921
Place of Birth: Kamenica, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Date of Death: 22-Sep-1943
Profession: political commissar
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About Marija Bursać
- Marija Bursac (Serbian Cyrillic: ?????? ??????; 2 August 1920 – 23 September 1943) was a member of the Yugoslav Partisans during World War II in Yugoslavia and the first woman proclaimed a People's Hero of Yugoslavia.
- Bursac was born to a Bosnian Serb farming family in the village of Kamenica, near Drvar.
- After the invasion of Yugoslavia by the Axis powers and their creation of the Independent State of Croatia in April 1941, Bursac supported the Partisan resistance movement led by the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ).
- Like other women in her village, she collected food, clothing, and other supplies for the Partisan war effort.
- Bursac became a member of the League of Communist Youth of Yugoslavia in September 1941.
- The following August she was appointed political commissar of a company of the 1st Krajina Agricultural Shock Brigade, which harvested crops in the Sanica River valley, and was admitted to the KPJ at the end of that summer. Bursac became a Partisan in February 1943, joining the newly formed 10th Krajina Brigade.
- With the brigade, she fought in the Bosansko Grahovo, Knin, Vrlika and Livno areas and served as a nurse.
- In September 1943, Bursac was wounded in the leg while throwing hand grenades during an attack on the German base at Prkosi in northwestern Bosnia.
- As she was being transported to a field hospital at Vidovo Selo, she sang Partisan songs.
- Bursac's wound soon developed gangrene, and she died at the hospital on 23 September 1943.
- She was proclaimed a People's Hero of Yugoslavia the following month.
- Schools, streets and organisations were named in her memory following the war, commemorating her service to the Partisan cause.
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