Yelena Mazanik

Yelena Grigoryevna Mazanik (Russian: Еле́на Григо́рьевна Маза́ник, Belarusian: Але́на Рыго́раўна Маза́нік, romanized: Aliena Ryhoraǔna Mazanik; 2 March 1914 – 7 April 1996) was a Soviet Belarusian partisan responsible for the assassination of Wilhelm Kube, General-Kommissar of Nazi-occupied Belarus, whom she killed by placing a small time-bomb under his bed while working for him as a housemaid. For assassinating him she and her co-conspirators were awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 29 October 1943 by decree of the Supreme Soviet. Her post-war life was spent as a librarian.