Rank: Military Assistant. _x000D_ Branch of troops: Military Medical Personnel _x000D_ Division: 75th Infantry Division (1st Formation). _x000D_ _x000D_ Military feldsher Skitnevskaya Maria Fominichna was in 110 Medical Sanitary Battalion of 75th Division. She was born in 1910 in the town of Opochka, Pskov region. A participant in the Finnish War, in 1940 she was awarded the Order of the Red Star. In May 1941 she is a part of 110 Medical Sanitary Battalion, 75 Rifle Divisions. It was sent to the city of Mozyr, Belorussian SSR. On the morning of June 22, the location of the unit was subjected to massive shelling and bombing from the advancing German troops, military assistant Maria Skitnevskaya, along with other doctors began to provide assistance to the wounded Soviet soldiers. The superior forces of the enemy cut off a group of Soviet military medics, who remained with wounded soldiers, from the main forces of the Division. _x000D_ Attempts to break out of the encirclement were unsuccessful; as a result, a group of female military assistants with seriously wounded soldiers, left without combat commanders, was forced to hide in the surrounding forests. As food supplies were running low, they had to make forays into nearby villages. _x000D_ Once they ran into a German patrol and were captured by German captives. In captivity, Maria Skitnevskaya assisted Soviet prisoners of war in the hospital of the prisoner of war camp in Malorita. _x000D_ In June 1942, military assistant Maria Fominichna Skitnevskaya was shot by the Germans along with other doctors and prisoners of war of Jewish nationality. _x000D_ Eternal memory to Soviet military doctors who remained faithful to their duty and oath to the end!