Petar R. AKŠAM

(1907. Mostar – 1943. Strigovi)

PETAR AKŠAM, son of RISTO, born on December 2, 1907, in Mostar. Teacher. Worked in several places before the war. Joined the People’s Liberation War (NOV i POJ) from Bosanska Kostajnica in 1941, in the insurgent units in the Krajina region. Member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ). Killed in early 1943 as the political commissar of the Krajiška Brigade company in the village of Strigovi.

Sources and literature:

grupa autora: Spomenica Mostara 1941-1945.; https://topportal.info/u-mostaru-u-drugom-svjetskom-ratu-stradalo-1675-srba-spisak/

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