{"id":11829,"date":"2023-05-16T19:54:33","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T18:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/partizansko.info\/partizan\/boro-n-balac\/"},"modified":"2025-04-19T17:22:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T16:22:54","slug":"boro-n-balac","status":"publish","type":"partizan","link":"https:\/\/partizansko.info\/en\/partizan\/boro-n-balac\/","title":{"rendered":"Boro N. BALA\u0106\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

BORIS BORO BALA\u0106, son of NIKOLA, born on February 22, 1915, in Kistanje near Knin. He lived and worked in Mostar as a tailor. He was a member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ) since 1938 and a member of the Local Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia in Mostar. He was arrested after the September demonstrations in 1940 in Mostar. At the beginning of the war, he participated in numerous underground actions in Mostar, such as acquiring weapons from abandoned barracks of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia’s army. He was a veteran fighter and joined the unit in mid-August 1941, tasked with raising an uprising in eastern Herzegovina. He occasionally served as a courier. He survived the offensives at the Neretva and Sutjeska rivers. He was the deputy political commissar of the company. He was killed on November 16, 1943, in the village of Doli near Sitnica in a battle against the Chetniks. In the same battle, DRAGO KNE\u017dI\u0106<\/a>, a student from Mostar, and MUHAMED LJUBOVI\u0106<\/a>, a worker from Mostar, were also killed. Later on, E\u0160REFA BILI\u0106<\/a>, a worker from Mostar, was also killed. Boro was described as an “uncompromising fighter for workers’ rights.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pavle Neimarovi\u0107, the brother of Boris’s comrade \u017divota Neimarovi\u0107<\/a>, described how the young men experienced the arrival of the occupiers after the capitulation of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The day after our re-entry into the barracks of the division, the capitulation of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia was announced, and the army really dispersed, leaving their positions. Even the guard in front of the division building had disappeared. At dusk, Savo Medan, Boro Bala\u0107, \u017divota, Todor, and I sat on Medan’s meadow above our house and watched the entry of the Italian army into Mostar. The column descended from \u0160iroki Brijeg and Li\u0161tice. At first, we counted the vehicles, or rather their lights, but as the lights were dim and the column continued to enter for hours, we got tired of counting.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The arrival of the occupiers was difficult for every patriot and honest person, not to mention how hard it was for us, progressive youth and all organized individuals. The younger and angrier among us disregarded the occupiers’ measures at every step and sabotaged their demands in an attempt to impose discipline and terror (…) Meanwhile, \u017divota and Sava held meetings almost every day with Jusuf \u010cevro, Miro Popara, Mladen Vukovi\u0107, Temim Mustafa Turk, and many others who came, most of whom we knew. From our street, the Bala\u0107 brothers, Boro and \u0110ole, and Boro Radan<\/a> would often come.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three brothers of Boro, Natko Bala\u0107<\/a>, \u0110or\u0111o Bala\u0107<\/a>, and Slavko Bala\u0107<\/a>, were killed in the People’s Liberation War (NOB). A street in Mostar is named after the Bala\u0107 brothers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BORIS BORO BALA\u0106, son of NIKOLA, born on February 22, 1915, in Kistanje near Knin. He lived and worked in Mostar as a tailor. He was a member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ) since 1938 and a member of the Local Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia in Mostar. He was arrested […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":32593,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[318,315,316],"tags":[350,317,330],"prezime":[343],"class_list":["post-11829","partizan","type-partizan","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-26-35-g-en","category-poginuli-1943-en","category-poginuli-u-bih-en","tag-balac-en","tag-bataljon-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":"

\u0106emalovi\u0107, Enver (1986): Mostarski bataljon<\/a>, Mostar; 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; Seferovi\u0107, Mensur (1981): \u201eIsto\u010dno i zapadno od Neretve<\/a>\u201c, \u201eNarodna armija\u201c, Beograd; grupa autora (1961): Hercegovina u NOB 1. dio<\/a>, Beograd, Vojno delo; grupa autora (1986): Hercegovina u NOB\u00a0 2. dio<\/a>, Beograd ; grupa autora (1986): Hercegovina u NOB 4. dio<\/a>, Beograd; grupa autora: Spomenica Mostara 1941-1945.<\/p>\r\n

Photo of the memorial plaque: S. Demirovi\u0107, photos of the fighter: Archives of K.D. Mileti\u0107, brochure: Partizanski spomenik u Mostaru<\/em><\/p>","ptb_partizan_datum_rodzenja":"(1915. Vrlika \u2013 1943. Doli)","ptb_partizan_godina":"28","ptb_partizan_galerija_1":{"url":["http:\/\/partizansko.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/braca-Balac-2.jpg","http:\/\/partizansko.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Balaci-na-panou.jpg","http:\/\/partizansko.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/x-H-Mehmedbasic-Rodoljubivi-Grad-Borba-1951-07-26.jpg","http:\/\/partizansko.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Brace-Balaca-1.jpg"],"link":["","","",""],"title":["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. 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