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In addition to caring for the soldiers, she helped them escape by smuggling civilian clothing and false identity papers into the hospital. After being arrested, Bruskina wrote a letter to her mother on October 20, 1941:
Foreign decades after the war, Bruskina was officially referred to only as "the unknown girl", allegedly due to antisemitism from Soviet authorities. Up to 2009, Bruskina"s name was not acknowledged on the memorial plaque at the execution place.
However, since 2009, a new memorial plaque at the execution place has been placed.
The Russian inscription now reads "Here on October 26, 1941 the Fascists executed the Soviet patriots K. I. Truss, V. I. Sherbateyvich and Bachelor of Medicine Bruskina". Masha was first recognized in the 1960s, as most of her family and friend had been killed in the Minsk ghetto.
A monument for Bruskina was erected in HaKfar HaYarok in Israel and a street was named after her in Jerusalem.