Nada Naumović

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Nada Naumović (22 April 1922 – 21 October 1941) was a Serbian student and anti-fascist activist during World War II. Born in Kragujevac, she studied in Belgrade and helped youth groups. In 1940 she joined the Communist Party of Yugoslavia at the Belgrade Medical School. After the occupation, she returned to Kragujevac and secretly worked with the resistance, organizing youth activities and collecting food, clothes, and medical supplies for Partisan fighters. She was executed during the Kragujevac massacre in October 1941. On 20 December 1951 she was posthumously named a People's Hero of Yugoslavia.