{"id":11827,"date":"2023-05-16T19:52:05","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T18:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/partizansko.info\/partizan\/natko-n-balac\/"},"modified":"2025-04-19T17:17:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T16:17:57","slug":"natko-n-balac","status":"publish","type":"partizan","link":"https:\/\/partizansko.info\/en\/partizan\/natko-n-balac\/","title":{"rendered":"Natko N. BALA\u0106\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

NATKO BALA\u0106, son of NIKOLA, born on December 16, 1912, in Kistanje near Knin, the oldest of the four sons who died in the Bala\u0107 family. He lived with his family in Mostar, where he completed high school and studied law at the University of Belgrade. He was a pre-war member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ). He worked as a lawyer at the Main Post Office in Belgrade, where, after the occupation, he worked on connecting displaced members of the KPJ from Mostar with party organizations in Serbia and sending Mostar residents and other fighters to partisan units. He was killed in combat with the Bulgarians in 1943 near Ni\u0161 (in Blace near Prokuplje<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EXCERPTS FROM LITERATURE:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Ilinka already learned during the war that her three sons had died, but she held out hope for Natko when the war ended, even though she hadn’t heard anything about him for four years of war. And one day, news spread that Natko had made contact. When his mother heard that, she was overjoyed. But one day, Slava received a message from Ilinka to come home immediately. When she arrived, she found a desperate mother with disheveled hair, pulling at it and crying. She showed her daughter a letter in which it was reported from Belgrade that Natko had been killed.” (Mahmud Konjhod\u017ei\u0107, Mostarke, page 245)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the recollection of Pavle Neimarovi\u0107, a refugee in Belgrade in 1941:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 “As soon as we settled, Natko Bala\u0107, a lawyer who had lived in Belgrade before the war, visited us the same afternoon. He was the eldest brother of the Bala\u0107 family from Mostar and our neighbor from the same street (he was killed near Ni\u0161 in 1943 as the last of the four Bala\u0107 brothers who fell in the National Liberation War). He ordered me and Vasa to come to his office at the Main Post Office in Belgrade for a meeting the following Sunday morning. He gave us the room number and floor. He knew we were members of SKOJ (Communist Youth Union) and didn’t mention why he called us (…)”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three brothers of Natko died in the National Liberation War: Slavko Bala\u0107<\/a>, \u0110or\u0111o Bala\u0107<\/a>, and Boro Bala\u0107<\/a>. A street in Mostar is named after the Bala\u0107 brothers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

*Information from the book “Spomenica Mostara 1941-1945.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NATKO BALA\u0106, son of NIKOLA, born on December 16, 1912, in Kistanje near Knin, the oldest of the four sons who died in the Bala\u0107 family. He lived with his family in Mostar, where he completed high school and studied law at the University of Belgrade. He was a pre-war member of the Communist Party […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":32597,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[318,315,340],"tags":[350,330],"prezime":[343],"class_list":["post-11827","partizan","type-partizan","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-26-35-g-en","category-poginuli-1943-en","category-poginuli-u-sr-en","tag-balac-en","tag-foto-en","prezime-b-en","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"ptb_metabox":{"ptb_partizan_izvori":"

Konjhod\u017ei\u0107, Mahmud (1981): \u201cMostarke\u201d<\/a>: fragmenti o revolucionarnoj djelatnosti i patriotskoj opredjeljenosti \u017eena Mostara, o njihovoj borbi za slobodu i socijalizam, Op\u0161tinski odbor SUBNOR-a Mostar; \u00a0grupa autora (1986): Hercegovina u NOB\u00a0 2. dio<\/a>, Beograd; grupa autora: Spomenica Mostara 1941-1945<\/p>\r\n

Photos<\/em>: https:\/\/www.klix.ba\/vijesti\/bih\/vandalizam-kakav-se-ne-pamti-evo-sta-smo-jutros-zatekli-na-partizanskom-groblju-u-mostaru\/220615028<\/a><\/p>","ptb_partizan_datum_rodzenja":"(1912. Benkovac \u2013 1943. kod Ni\u0161a)","ptb_partizan_godina":"31","ptb_partizan_galerija_1":{"url":["http:\/\/partizansko.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-3.png","http:\/\/partizansko.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/bala.jpg","http:\/\/partizansko.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/balac-n.jpg","http:\/\/partizansko.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/natko-balac-spomen-ploca.jpg","http:\/\/partizansko.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Brace-Balaca-1.jpg","http:\/\/partizansko.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/braca-Balac-2.jpg","http:\/\/partizansko.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Balaci-na-panou.jpg"],"link":["","","","","","",""],"title":["original plaque of Natko Bala\u0107 (1965.). Source: Filmski centar Sarajevo.","","","source: facebook","Bra\u0107e Bala\u0107a street in Mostar (google maps)","the Bala\u0107 brothers, detail from the panel dedicated to fallen fighters. Archives of K.D. Mileti\u0107","panel dedicated to fallen fighters featuring the Bala\u0107 brothers. Archives of K.D. Mileti\u0107"],"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\/Balac-Natko-IMG_3323-rotated.jpg","2":"http:\/\/partizansko.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Balac-Natko-IMG_3323-rotated.jpg"},"ptb_partizan_spisak_info":["partizan_spisak_info_1","partizan_spisak_info_2","partizan_spisak_info_3"]},"ptb_taxonomy":{"category":[{"term_id":318,"name":"26-35 y\/o","slug":"26-35-g-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":318,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":160,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":315,"name":"died in 1943","slug":"poginuli-1943-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":315,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":183,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":340,"name":"died in SR","slug":"poginuli-u-sr-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":340,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":15,"filter":"raw"}],"post_tag":[{"term_id":350,"name":"Bala\u0107","slug":"balac-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":350,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":4,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":330,"name":"foto","slug":"foto-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":330,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":288,"filter":"raw"}],"prezime":[{"term_id":343,"name":"B","slug":"b-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":343,"taxonomy":"prezime","description":"","parent":0,"count":80,"filter":"raw"}]},"ptb_featured_image":{"url":"http:\/\/partizansko.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Natko-Balac-vjerovatno.jpg","title":"Natko Bala\u0107 vjerovatno","caption":""},"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/partizansko.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/partizan\/11827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/partizansko.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/partizan"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/partizansko.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/partizan"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/partizansko.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/partizan\/11827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16353,"href":"https:\/\/partizansko.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/partizan\/11827\/revisions\/16353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partizansko.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/partizansko.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partizansko.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partizansko.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11827"},{"taxonomy":"prezime","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partizansko.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prezime?post=11827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}