brochure “Partizanski spomenik u Mostaru” (1980)
book “Spomenica Mostara 1941-1945.”
another document or proof of the memorial stone (e.g., a photograph).
Ljubo F. ZELENIKA
LJUBOMIR LJUBO ZELENIKA, son of FRANJO, born on December 14, 1917 in Mostar. A civil servant, football player for FC “Velež,” and a pre-war activist and participant in the National Liberation War.
After the burning of the Tobacco Factory, he was arrested by the Italians as a hostage and executed on June 13, 1942. On the same occasion, Savo Delić, Šefkija Pašić, Jovan Žerajić, and Husnija Rebac were also shot. The remaining detainees were taken to prisons or camps in Dalmatia, and the four prominent captured activists, Dr. Zvonko Marić, Vinko Džidić, Tripo Uljarević, and Borivoje Zurovac, were immediately executed upon their arrival in Herceg-Novi, at Kameno.
*according to the book “Spomenica Mostara 1941-1945.”
grupa autora: Spomenica Mostara 1941-1945 ; grupa autora (1961): Hercegovina u NOB br. 1, Beograd, Vojno delo; http://rsdvelezmostar.blogspot.com/p/fk-velez.html ; Drago Karlo Miletić, članak „Italijanska reokupacija Mostara (septembar 1941 – juni 1943), Hercegovina br. 7, str. 119.
Photo of the memorial plaque: S. Demirović (2018). Photo of the fighter: “Partizanski spomenik u Mostaru”.
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