ALIJA ARAP, son of SEJDO, born on January 4, 1927* in Mostar, learned the trade of a metalworker. He became a member of the League of Communist Youth (SKOJ) in 1941 and joined the Battalion in November 1941. He was a fighter and was killed in Bradina near Konjic in October 1944. He was part of a partisan reconnaissance unit sent towards the railway on October 24, which did not return from the mission. They were intercepted and executed by legionnaires. He was described as “a boy from Gornje Mazoljice, dark-skinned, like an Arab (his last name).”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ALIJA ARAP, son of SEJDO, born on January 4, 1927* in Mostar, learned the trade of a metalworker. He became a member of the League of Communist Youth (SKOJ) in 1941 and joined the Battalion in November 1941. He was a fighter and was killed in Bradina near Konjic in October 1944. He was part […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9313,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[314,336,316],"tags":[317],"prezime":[313],"class_list":["post-11740","partizan","type-partizan","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-18-25-g-en","category-poginuli-1944-en","category-poginuli-u-bih-en","tag-bataljon-en","prezime-a-en","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"ptb_metabox":{"ptb_partizan_izvori":"
\u0106emalovi\u0107, Enver (1986): Mostarski bataljon<\/a>, Mostar; grupa autora: Spomenica Mostara 1941-1945; Buturovi\u0107, Ferid (2016): Ku\u0107a mostarskog kadije, sje\u0107anja skojevca - ilegalca i partizana, Sarajevo.<\/p>\r\n Photo of the memorial plaque<\/em>: S. Demirovi\u0107; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=10226312266223535&set=pcb.5344227412266459<\/a><\/p>","ptb_partizan_datum_rodzenja":"(1926. Mostar \u2013 1944. Bradina)","ptb_partizan_godina":"18","ptb_partizan_galerija_1":{"url":["http:\/\/partizansko.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/p-arap.jpg"],"link":[""],"title":[""],"description":[""]},"ptb_partizan_poruka_":"Do you have more information about this fighter? Share<\/a> your stories and photographs. Let's keep the memory alive!","ptb_partizan_ploca":{"1":"http:\/\/partizansko.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Arap-Alija-IMG_3299-rotated.jpg","2":"http:\/\/partizansko.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Arap-Alija-IMG_3299-rotated.jpg"},"ptb_partizan_spisak_info":["partizan_spisak_info_1","partizan_spisak_info_2","partizan_spisak_info_3"]},"ptb_taxonomy":{"category":[{"term_id":314,"name":"18-25 y\/o","slug":"18-25-g-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":314,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":415,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":336,"name":"died in 1944","slug":"poginuli-1944-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":336,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":159,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":316,"name":"died in BiH","slug":"poginuli-u-bih-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":316,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":518,"filter":"raw"}],"post_tag":[{"term_id":317,"name":"Fallen fighters of the Mostar Battalion.","slug":"bataljon-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":317,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"[gallery link=\"file\" size=\"medium\" ids=\"7114,7116,7122\"]\r\n\r\nMostar Battalion was formed as the \"Konji\u010dki\" in September 1941. Until the formation of the 13th Herzegovina Brigade in May 1944, 827 fighters passed through the Battalion, and 445 of them perished, including 211 from Mostar. Of the 86 women, 43 were killed. Mostar residents also fought in many other units of the NOVJ (People's Liberation Army of Yugoslavia) and among the ranks of the activists of the National Liberation War in Mostar and other cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina... According to the records of the organization SUBNOR Mostar, every third citizen was an activist of the National Liberation War, 670 fighters were killed, 1517 were victims of fascist terror, and 206 were civilian war victims. D\u017eemil \u0160arac, article \"Sa Mostarcima\" (\"With the People from Mostar\"), Hercegovina No. 9, p. 221.\r\n\r\n\"And we were all young. Those of us who were 17, 18 years old, some seemed old even though they were not older than 25. The ones over 30 were rare. There were girls and boys with different characteristics and temperaments, robust and calm, talkative and silent, recklessly brave and rational, ordinary and above-average, semi-literate and university-educated, workers and highly skilled craftsmen, high school students and university students, skilled singers and those who couldn't carry a tune, jokers and serious-minded individuals. From all our nations and religions: Muslims, Croats, Serbs, Jews, Orthodox Christians, Catholics, Muslims, Jews, atheists, and semi-atheists. Some were from straight from Mostar and others from the surrounding locations, from Konjic and outside Konjic.\" (Hercegovina Magazine No. 7, p. 238)\r\n\r\nGroups of new fighters arrived from Mostar every 10-15 days, and the Unit quickly grew into a solid military force. The guides for the groups from Mostar were Mehmed Arap, Vasa Maslo, Serif Buri\u0107, Husa Orman, Vojo Ivani\u0161evi\u0107, and Pero Krajina, who were among the bravest and most resourceful fighters. The groups regularly brought not only weapons but also medical supplies, sugar for the hospital, writing materials, large quantities of paper, books taken from the National Library (which formed the library at Borci), and other supplies for the needs of the Unit. 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