FATIMA BALTA, daughter of OSMAN, born in Mostar on October 5, 1922. Housewife. Member of the League of Communist Youth (SKOJ) since 1940. Party member and underground operative. Arrested by the Ustasha on March 23, 1944, in Mostar. According to a Ustasha document, she was described as “the daughter of Osman and Hatid\u017ea, unmarried, housewife, sent to the camp upon the recommendation of the Z.R.O. in Mostar for a period of 18 months; as a member of the communist organization A.F.\u017d., she maintained contact with deserters and received printing materials for leaflet production.” She was taken to the Stara Gradi\u0161ka camp and then to the Jasenovac concentration camp, where she was killed in early 1945.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
From the testimony of a fellow prisoner:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“We, the women in the tailoring workshop who were still alive, were transferred to Lepoglava along with the workshop. The two months in Lepoglava were difficult. The executioners who had disappeared from Stara Gradi\u0161ka earlier had found themselves there on a new task. Every night, they slaughtered people in the ground-floor cells. The nights were long, terrifying, and sleepless for us. The Ustasha men and women openly spoke in front of us about killing partisans, but there were many ‘partisans’ among us. Under the name ‘partisan,’ all our comrades who happened to be in that prison were killed. Dika Ha\u0111\u017ei\u0107 and Fatima Balta from Mostar were killed there, along with many others whose names I do not remember.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Mostarac Omer \u0160aput, brat ubijenog Safeta \u0160aputa je nakon rata, 19. oktobra 1945. dao izjavu, objavljenu kao \u201eZapisnik Gradske komisije za ispitivanje ratnih zlo\u010dina okupatora i njihovih pomaga\u010da\u201c o bratovom hap\u0161enju. U toj izjavi se spominje i Fatima Balta. Svi uhap\u0161eni su pro\u0161li sli\u010dnu golgotu:<\/p>\n\n\n\nMostar resident Omer \u0160aput, the brother of the deceased Safet \u0160aput, gave a statement on October 19, 1945, which was published as the “Minutes of the City Commission for the Investigation of War Crimes by Occupiers and Their Collaborators” regarding his brother’s arrest. In that statement, Fatima Balta is also mentioned. All the arrested individuals experienced a similar ordeal:\n\n “On March 24, 1944, in Mostar, there was a Ustasha protective police force from Sarajevo that, in cooperation with the Mostar police, carried out a series of arrests. (…) These arrests were carried out by agents, including the chief of the protective police force in Sarajevo, Jakupovi\u0107, agent Hafizovi\u0107, Su\u0161i\u0107 Pavo (illegible), and agent Cvitanovi\u0107 from the Mostar police. Particularly malicious was Su\u0161i\u0107 Pavo, as well as the others to a lesser extent. I believe that all the agents are now in hiding. In Mostar, they kept several detainees in prison for another month, where they subjected them to terrifying suffering and terror. They tormented them with three days of hunger, gave them salt, beat them with fists, feet, and batons, put them in the so-called ‘tram,’ and after a month, they were sent to Stara Gradi\u0161ka, a large penitentiary. In that group, there were 12 men and 4 women from Mostar. Among them were Professor Mustafa Alikalfi\u0107<\/a>, Zajko Mehi\u0107<\/a>, Omer Mesihovi\u0107<\/a>, Lazo Radi\u0161i\u0107<\/a>, Arif Sabitage Had\u017eiselimovi\u0107<\/a>, Du\u0161an \u010culajevi\u0107<\/a>, Mahmut Bu\u010duk<\/a>, Osman Novo, my brother Safet. I cannot recall the other names at the moment. Among the women were Fatima Balta<\/a>, Fahira \u0106i\u0161i\u0107, Had\u017ei\u0107<\/a>, and Bera \u0106emalovi\u0107<\/a> (…)”<\/em>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" FATIMA BALTA, daughter of OSMAN, born in Mostar on October 5, 1922. Housewife. Member of the League of Communist Youth (SKOJ) since 1940. Party member and underground operative. Arrested by the Ustasha on March 23, 1944, in Mostar. According to a Ustasha document, she was described as “the daughter of Osman and Hatid\u017ea, unmarried, housewife, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9682,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[314,320,328,316,307,329],"tags":[311],"prezime":[343],"class_list":["post-11834","partizan","type-partizan","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-18-25-g-en","category-logori-en","category-poginuli-1945-en","category-poginuli-u-bih-en","category-jasenovac-en","category-zene-en","tag-logor-jasenovac-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":" https:\/\/www.portalnovosti.com\/mostarke-otpor-u-zicama<\/a> ; 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; Halilbegovi\u0107, Nihad (2006): Bo\u0161njaci u jasenova\u010dkom logoru<\/a>, Sarajevo; grupa autora: Spomenica Mostara 1941-1945; \u010ceki\u0107, Smail (1996): Genocid nad Bo\u0161njacima u 2. svjetskom ratu<\/a>, Sarajevo<\/p>\r\n Photos<\/em>: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=2870918573193703<\/a> ; Halilbegovi\u0107, Nihad (2006): Bo\u0161njaci u jasenova\u010dkom logoru<\/a>, Sarajevo<\/p>\r\n Photo of the memorial plaque:<\/em> S. Demirovi\u0107<\/p>\r\n