ALIJA ALE \u0106I\u0160I\u0106, son of SULEJMAN, born on August 17, 1920, in Mostar, a machine fitter, player of FC “Vele\u017e” , member of the Communist Youth League (SKOJ) since 1939 and the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ) since 1941. In the Battalion since April 1942, serving as a lance corporal. Survived the Fifth Offensive on the Sutjeska River. He was killed while descending into Mostar on July 22\/23, 1943. Shot by the NDH police during an escape attempt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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EXCERPTS FROM LITERATURE:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A vignette from the partisan life:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“At dawn on June 11, we set off to the area between Mrkalj-klada and Drago\u0161-sedlo, below Magli\u0107 Mountain, where we deployed patrols towards Prijevor, deep in the forests of Peru\u0107ica Mountain, with the goal of securing the passage of the Central Hospital to Drago\u0161-sedlo. The Germans were on Magli\u0107 Mountain, where they had climbed a few days earlier, and they were shelling us from above with artillery while sending their patrols and reconnaissance groups to the foot of Magli\u0107. One of those groups controlled the path we were moving towards Mrkalj-klada and stopped the entire Battalion. The company commissar, \u0160efik Obad<\/a>, along with the commander Ahmet Pintul<\/a>, E\u0161ref Feji\u0107<\/a>, and Alija \u0106i\u0161i\u0107, ventured through the forest, and when they reached above the German machine gun nest, our comrades bombarded the Germans with grenades, brought the light machine gun ‘Sharac,’ and 4 rifles with plenty of ammunition. After the Battalion passed, we rested in the forest. We were given a sizable piece of raw meat for food. It was forbidden to light a fire (…) “<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Regarding the death of Alija \u0106i\u0161i\u0107:<\/p>\n\n\n\n “On July 22\/23 (\u2026) Salko Feji\u0107, Mehmed Arap, and Alija \u0106i\u0161i\u0107 went to Mostar to organize the delivery of food. They descended into the vineyards above Carina, where they were noticed by a peasant working in the vineyard. He immediately informed the police about their whereabouts. A group of Usta\u0161e, agents, and policemen quickly arrived, surrounded the comrades, and opened fire on them. Salko Feji\u0107 and Mehmed Arap fled downhill. Feji\u0107, wounded in several places, hid in a gap beneath the road and reached Dobr\u010d during the night. Mehmed Arap sprinted into the outskirts and then circumvented the site of the attack in a wide arc, heading towards Dobr\u010d. Alija \u0106i\u0161i\u0107, a worker from Mostar, was killed while fleeing uphill. Upon arriving in Dobr\u010d, Feji\u0107 and Arap told us about this new tragedy. The death of Alija \u0106i\u0161i\u0107 struck us down (\u2026)”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n One street in Mazoljice, Mostar, is named after Ale \u0106i\u0161i\u0107.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ALIJA ALE \u0106I\u0160I\u0106, son of SULEJMAN, born on August 17, 1920, in Mostar, a machine fitter, player of FC “Vele\u017e” , member of the Communist Youth League (SKOJ) since 1939 and the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ) since 1941. In the Battalion since April 1942, serving as a lance corporal. Survived the Fifth Offensive on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":10407,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[314,315,316,306,325],"tags":[317,330],"prezime":[375],"class_list":["post-12067","partizan","type-partizan","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-18-25-g-en","category-poginuli-1943-en","category-poginuli-u-bih-en","category-velez-en","category-ubijeni-u-mostaru-en","tag-bataljon-en","tag-foto-en","prezime-c-2-en","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"ptb_metabox":{"ptb_partizan_izvori":" http:\/\/rsdvelezmostar.blogspot.com\/p\/fk-velez.html<\/a>; Deseta Hercegova\u010dka brigada<\/a> (spisak boraca); \u0106emalovi\u0107, Enver (1986): Mostarski bataljon<\/a>, Mostar; Seferovi\u0107, Mensur (1958): \u201cBataljon u okupiranom gradu<\/a>\u201d, Sarajevo; grupa autora: Spomenica Mostara 1941-1945; grupa autora: Spomenica Mostara 1941-1945.<\/p>\r\n Photo of the memorial plaque<\/em>: S. 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In that season, Vele\u017e played with Boro \u0106e\u0107ez, Vjekoslav Bo\u0161kovi\u0107, Alija \u010ci\u0161i\u0107, Mehmed Trbonja, \u0160erif Husrefovi\u0107, Fadil Buturovi\u0107, Mustafa Had\u017eiomerovi\u0107, Kemal Arpad\u017ei\u0107, \u0160efkija \u0106emal, Ilija Terzi\u0107, Sulejman Gu\u0161anec and Haldun Hrvi\u0107. Alija \u0106i\u0161i\u0107 is said to be on this photo, as well."," post-war article about FC \"Vele\u017e\"","Alija \u0106i\u0161i\u0107 ","Ale \u0106i\u0161i\u0107 featured on a post-war poster dedicated to fallen fighters. From the archives of K.D. Mileti\u0107.","approximate location above Mazoljice in Mostar, near the vineyards, where Ale \u0106i\u0161i\u0107 was shot.","Ale \u0106i\u0161i\u0107a street in Mostar (google maps)"],"description":["","","","","","",""]},"ptb_partizan_poruka_":"Do you have more information about this fighter? Share<\/a> your stories and photographs. 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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. 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