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and comrades and did not reveal details of the underground's activities. She was hunged by her hair, burned with hot irons, had a five-pointed star cut into her back and the wound rubbed with salt, and suffered a broken arm and broken ribs. She endured her suffering stoically, and even cheered her imprisoned comrades by reciting
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in 1941, Gromova was 17 years old and in tenth grade. Like many of her classmates, she worked in agriculture to replace farm workers and took care of wounded soldiers in the hospital (reading to them, helping them write letters, and so forth). She was graduated from high school with good-to-excellent
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When her home province was occupied by German troops, which began on 17 July 1942, Gromova was not able to evacuate because she needed to care for her sick mother. Together with Maya
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612:[Oaths, Notes, and Inscriptions on the Walls of Fascist Dungeon Prison Cells, by Members of the Krasnodon Underground Komsolol Organization "Young Guards" – End of September 1942 to February 9, 1943].
610:"Клятва, записки и надписи на стенах тюремных камер фашистских застенков членов краснодонской подпольной комсомольской организации "Молодая гвардия". Конец сентября 1942 г.- 9 февраля 1943 г."
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and worked as mineworker, retiring in 1937. Gromova's mother (born 1884) was housewife; the family had five children, Ulyana being the youngest. In March 1940 Ulyana
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disrupt plans to supply the Germans with material and impress Soviet youth to work in Germany.
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