Enver S. LAKIŠIĆ 

ENVER LAKIŠIĆ, son of AVDIBEG, born on October 30, 1917* in Mostar, a medical student, a player of “Velež” football club, a member of KPJ (Communist Party of Yugoslavia) since 1940. Joined the Battalion in late 1941 when he went to the field with the Visoko-Fojnica Detachment. He served as a squad commissar and a medic in the surgical team of the Division, led by Dr. Isidor Papić. In late 1941, he was the head of the hospital in the Kalinovac NOP Detachment, established a partisan hospital in Bijele Vode, and served as a sanitation officer in the Romanija Partisan Battalion. After the Battle of Sutjeska, he went to Breza, where he continued his political activities. In the autumn of 1943, he informed the Supreme Headquarters and the Central Committee of KPJ about the situation in the Breza area in Jajce. He also served as a commissar of the Local Command in Jajce. He was assigned to the formation of the KPJ Committee for the Sarajevo district. He was killed in Vlatnica near Visoko in December 1943.

Brother of Mustafa Lakišić. A street in Mostar is named after the Lakišić brothers.

Several mentions of Enver Lakišić are recorded in the literature:

“(…) we continued to climb up Boračka Draga. I remember that down the mountain (…) Enver Lakišić, our doctor, and Esa Grebo came running to us. The Chetniks had disarmed them in Borci, in the village itself, and let them go. They didn’t harm them, they just took their weapons away (…)”

Enver Ćemalović: “Before nightfall, Hamid Drljević and the wounded Enver Lakišić joined them. When night fell, with the moonlight shining as if it were day, they crossed the Sutjeska River. Hamid carried Enver across the water. They stayed under the Vučevo rocks for three nights and three days. On June 14, the Germans massacred anyone they caught at Tjentište, including our horses, and on June 16, they left Tjentište and marched in long columns towards Gacko (…)”

* according to the data in the book “Spomenica Mostar 1941-1945.”