brochure “Partizanski spomenik u Mostaru” (1980)
book “Spomenica Mostara 1941-1945.”
another document or proof of the memorial stone (e.g., a photograph).
Safet A. ĆIŠIĆ
SAFET ĆIŠIĆ, son of AVDO, born on July 18, 1929* in Mostar. Completed elementary school. Student, the League of Communist Youth (SKOJ) member, participant in underground actions in Mostar. In one action he took part in, nearly a thousand books were saved from the library:
“The first institution and organization sealed by the Ustaše after the occupation was the library. However, the administration managed to remove Marxist books in time and hide them. Strike groups of communists removed the Ustaše seals from the doors and rescued important books; then they sealed the entrances again without the Ustaše noticing anything. Around 900 books were transferred to private homes and hidden, but during the first hour, around 600 works were taken only to the house of SKOJ member Safet Ćišić. Shortly after, the Ustaše made a bonfire on Musala Square to burn progressive books, but they couldn’t throw the most significant ones onto that bonfire (…).”
He joined the Yugoslav Army in Zenica on April 9, 1945, in the 9th Krajiška Brigade. A fighter, he died on May 10, 1945, in Slovenia.
*According to the data from the book “Spomenica Mostara 1941-1945.”
Ćemalović, Enver (1986): Mostarski bataljon, Mostar; Konjhodžić, Mahmud (1981): “Mostarke”: fragmenti o revolucionarnoj djelatnosti i patriotskoj opredjeljenosti žena Mostara, o njihovoj borbi za slobodu i socijalizam, Opštinski odbor SUBNOR-a Mostar ; grupa autora: Spomenica Mostara 1941-1945.
Photo of the memorial plaque: S. Demirović
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