brochure “Partizanski spomenik u Mostaru” (1980)
book “Spomenica Mostara 1941-1945.”
another document or proof of the memorial stone (e.g., a photograph).
Hakija A. DERVIŠKADIĆ
HAKIJA DERVIŠKADIĆ, son of ARIF, born on January 20, 1920, in Nevesinje. He was a student at the Gymnasium in Mostar and a player for “Velež” football club. A pre-war member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ). After the capitulation of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, he worked as a political worker in the Nevesinje area, and from November 1941, he became a member of the District Committee of SKOJ for Kalinovik. He joined the Herzegovina Partisan Detachment after the Chetnik coup, and later the 2nd Battalion of the 10th Herzegovina Brigade. He was wounded in the Fourth offensive and later fell ill with typhus. He served as the political delegate of the platoon in the 1st Company of the 2nd Battalion. He died on Zelengora Mountain on June 10, 1943.
Hakija’s name was recorded on a memorial plaque in the Mostar Gymnasium. The plaque disappeared without a trace during the war events of 1992-1995.
Excerpt from literature:
“Among the typhus patients was Hakija Derviškadić, a fighter, who was wounded in the Fourth enemy offensive, and later fell ill with that vicious disease. He could not even speak due to exhaustion (…)”
https://poskok.info/mostarke-u-doba-okupacije-sloboda-nije-stigla-iz-bajke/; http://rsdvelezmostar.blogspot.com/p/fk-velez.html; http://www.most.ba/091/015.aspx; Deseta Hercegovačka brigada (spisak boraca); grupa autora (1961): Hercegovina u NOB 1. dio, Beograd, Vojno delo; grupa autora: Spomenica Mostara 1941-1945.; Alikalfić, Fazlija, Seferović, Nusret (1989): “Zbornik sjećanja o Mostarskom bataljonu”, Skupština opštine, Odbor za istoriju revolucionarnog radničkog pokreta i NOB-a Mostara
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