brochure “Partizanski spomenik u Mostaru” (1980)
book “Spomenica Mostara 1941-1945.”
another document or proof of the memorial stone (e.g., a photograph).
Hatidža M. KRESO
HATIDŽA TIDŽA KRESO, daughter of MUSTAFA, born on September 20, 1924, in Mostar. Homemaker. Since April 1941, she was a member of the Inter-School Unit of the Communist Youth League (SKOJ). In late July 1941, during the mass arrests of Serbs when Tanja Peško refused to move to Serbia with her parents, Hatidža hid the illegal activist Tanja Peško. “In the neighborhood, she would say that her ‘cousin from Bosnia’ had arrived.” As an illegal activist, she was involved in collecting and hiding weapons and ammunition. She joined the National Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments on February 14, 1945, in the 11th Dalmatian Brigade. A fighter, she was killed towards the end of the war in battles near Bihać.
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; grupa autora: Spomenica Mostara 1941-1945.
Photo of the memorial plaque: S. Demirović.
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