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 received his education in Mostar, where he lived with his family and worked at the Tobacco Factory in Mostar. He was a pre-war member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ), a trade union official, and an activist and functionary of the FC “Velež”. After the September demonstrations in 1940 in Mostar, he sought refuge in Sarajevo. Upon his return to Mostar in January 1941, he was arrested and taken to the Lepoglava prison, handed over to the Ustasha in April 1941, and in July of the same year, he was taken to the Jasenovac concentration camp, where he was killed.
At the Tobacco Factory where he once worked, the following memorial plaque has been installed:
“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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