Partisan Memorial Cemetery in Mostar
the right to the Beauty of dreams
It was built in their honour: BIOGRAPHIES OF FALLEN FIGHTERS AND ANTIFASCISTS OF MOSTAR
720 biographies of fallen fighters, activists, and sympathizers from the Partisan Memorial Cemetery in Mostar, as remembered by comrades and contemporaries. Discover how they lived and how they perished.
Call to readers: We are collecting photographs and stories about fallen fighters. How to get in touch.
Women of Mostar
in concentration camps
Fallen high school students from Mostar
13 national heroes from Mostar
Memorial Plaques
Photos of memorial plaques taken shortly after their installation in 2018 (and four years before they were smashed to pieces in a violent attack).
Photos: S. Demirović.
untold stories from the partisan memorial
a new look at (pre)war photographs
in the spotlight
ABOUT THE MEMORIAL, IN SHORT
Known among the locals as “Partizansko” – or affectionately “Partiza” – the Partisan Memorial Cemetery in Mostar is a place where art and history converge.
“This is a masterpiece, and I want to see it!”
– Jean-Paul Sartre
EUROPA NOSTRA: Thanks to the efforts of IDEAA Mostar, the Partisan Memorial Cemetery was added to the 2023 list of 7 Most Endangered Sites in Europe.
Take a 3D virtual tour
Explore the Partisan Memorial Cemetery through a virtual 3D tour, preserved as it was in 2021, before the destruction of the memorial plaques in an unsolved vandal attack. Courtesy of Anclin Tadej from Yugostalgia.
Photo Walks
A picture is worth a thousand words: Partisan Memorial Cemetery throughout history, with a brief overview before and after the deliberate violent attacks and neglect it has been enduring for more than thirty years.
Bogdan
Then came Bogdan… a brief homage to a legendary architect and visionary who dedicated one of his greatest and most important works to Mostar.
Read two touching letters from Bogdan, the “before” and “after” letters from 1975 and 1997, respectively.
“And I believed that fallen antifascist fighters from Mostar, practically still boys and girls, have, at least symbolically, the right to a beauty of dreams.”
– Bogdan Bogdanović,
architect of the Partisan Memorial Cemetery in Mostar
Stonemasons
The invisible hands of diligent stonemasons who built the Partisan Memorial Cemetery – or – when the call comes – are tasked with its repairs. Here we tell a little bit about these important people – both the old and new masters.
