brochure “Partizanski spomenik u Mostaru” (1980)
book “Spomenica Mostara 1941-1945.”
another document or proof of the memorial stone (e.g., a photograph).
Ejub S. KRPO
EJUB KRPO, son of SULEJMAN, born on May 10, 1922, in Mostar, a student at the Teacher Training School, a member of SKOJ (League of Communist Youth of Yugoslavia) since 1941. He participated in numerous actions of the school and neighborhood SKOJ organization. Arrested by the Italians in August 1942. Joined the National Liberation Army and Partisans’ Detachments of Yugoslavia in October 1943, and from May 1944, worked as a political worker in the Prozor area. According to an article, he was described as a “dedicated field worker.” A fighter, captured by the Ustaše (Croatian fascist regime) on November 19, 1944, in Džanići near Konjic, and killed. He was buried in a mass grave at the partisan cemetery in Džanići. In 1952, a monument with a memorial plaque to the fallen fighters was erected at that location.
A street in Mostar is named after the Krpo brothers.
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Regarding Ejub’s death, Mensur Seferović wrote that he “as a field party worker in the semi-liberated territory, offered such strong resistance to a German sabotage group that attacked a small group of partisans, that later, while wounded, they nailed him to the door of a village house.” Ejub was remembered in Mostar as a “strong young man and a swimmer from the Neretva River.”
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; Seferović, Mensur: Mostarski kolopleti, edicija “Mostar u borbi za slobodu”, knjiga 8, Mostar; Džemil Šarac, članak „Sa Mostarcima“, Hercegovina br 9, str 221; grupa autora: Spomenica Mostara 1941-1945., spomenicinob.info.
article “Ulica braće Krpo”, Š. Pašić (ustupio CIDOM)
Photo of the memorial plaque: S. Demirović; spomeniciNOB.info
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