Marina Chafroff (28 February 1908 – 31 January 1942) was a Russian member of the Belgian Resistance to Nazi occupation during World War II.
There, she would begin working as a dental secretary and would marry Iouri Mourataïev, a radio technician and fellow Russian emigrant, in 1932.
[3] In response, the Nazi occupation authority announced the closure of entertainment venues in the city and took 60 Belgians hostage, threatening to execute them on if the assassin was not revealed within ten days.
During interrogation, she confessed to having perpetrated the first stabbing, saying that she had been motivated by a Radio Moscow speech given by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin calling for Russian partisans to attack Nazi soldiers.
[5] In 2023, Belgian journalist Myriam Leroy published a historical novel titled Le mystère de la femme sans tête based on Chafroff's life.