Tetiana Markus

Tetyana Yosypivna Markus (also rendered as Tatiana, ; 21 September 1921 – 29 January 1943) was a member of the anti-Nazi underground in Kiev.

Biography Markus was born in the Shtetl of Romny to a large Jewish family. A few years after her birth, her family moved to Kyiv. Markus graduated from the 9th form of school No. 44. In 1938, she worked as a secretary of the personnel department of the passenger service of the South-Western Railways. In the summer of 1940, she was sent to Chișinău, where she worked in a tramway trolleybus park. With fake documents, Markus was registered in a private house under the name of Marcousisse: a legend was invented that she was the daughter of a Georgian prince executed by the Bolsheviks. She received the title of Hero of Ukraine with the Golden Star on 21 September 2006 – for personal courage and heroic self-sacrifice, invincibility of spirit in the fight against fascist invaders in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945. On 1 December 2009, a monument to Markus was opened in Babi Yar. In September 2011, a postage stamp dedicated to her was issued.