brochure "Partizanski spomenik u Mostaru" (1980)
book “Spomenica Mostara 1941-1945.”
another document or proof of the memorial stone (e.g., a photograph).
Velija O. HUJDUR
VELIJA HUJDUR, son of OMER, born on October 25, 1913, in Medanići near Gacko*. He was a tinsmith. He was educated in Mostar, where he lived with his family. As a young man, he worked in the tinsmith workshop of revolutionary Gojko Vuković near Čardak by the Old Bridge in Mostar, and later in the Tobacco Factory. A pre-war member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, he was a trade union official, activist, and official of the Workers’ Sports Club “Velež.” After the September demonstrations of 1940 in Mostar, he went into hiding in Sarajevo. Upon returning to Mostar in January 1941, he was arrested and taken to the Lepoglava camp. Like other Mostar communists, he was handed over to the Ustaše in April 1941 and in July of that year deported to the Jasenovac concentration camp, where he was killed.
At the Tobacco Factory where he once worked, the following memorial plaque was installed in 1957. The plaque was removed during the demolition of the Factory building and now rests on the wall of a store in the building constructed in its place:
“From this place, in September 1940,
Velija Hujdur, a worker of this collective,
attempted to call a general strike in the city of Mostar.
This fearless fighter was condemned by the authorities to prison and later killed.
May the shining feat of comrade Velija serve as an example of how the
WORKING CLASS, led and educated by the COMMUNIST PARTY OF YUGOSLAVIA, fought.
2‑VII‑1951
The Collective of the Mostar Tobacco Factory.”
*According to the book “Spomenica Mostara 1941-1945”.
grupa autora: Spomenica Mostara 1941-1945.
Photo of the memorial plaque: S. Demirović
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