{"id":12124,"date":"2023-05-16T16:07:15","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T15:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/partizansko.info\/partizan\/rafo-s-danon\/"},"modified":"2023-11-26T13:42:08","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T13:42:08","slug":"rafo-s-danon","status":"publish","type":"partizan","link":"https:\/\/partizansko.info\/en\/partizan\/rafo-s-danon\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafo S. DANON\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

RAPHAILO RAFAEL RAFA DANON, known as ADMIRAL TOGO, son of ZADIK*, born on October 15, 1912* in Mostar, as one of the ten children of the merchant Zadik and Estera Danon (The children were named David, Avram, Mirjana, Sida, Izidor, Sara, Rifka, Makso, Mo\u0161o, and Rafael. There were a total of 19 houses belonging to the Danon family in Mostar before the war.). He worked as a trade assistant, was a pre-war activist in the labor movement, and joined the Battalion in December 1941 as a fighter. He was captured during the Chetnik coup in June 1942 in Borci near Konjic. He was captured by the Chetniks along with Salom Finci, a worker from Sarajevo. They were taken to Nevesinje, where they were handed over to the Italians and killed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before the war, Rafo Danon “was the ‘commander’ of a column of several hundred bathers on the Neretva, and a song was sung about it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“A yellow steamboat sets off down the Neretva,
The Admiral walks along the deck\u2026”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1999, a Holocaust memorial was erected in the Jewish cemetery in Mostar, which also includes Rafael’s name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

*In the book “Spomenica Mostara 1941-1945,” his father’s name is mentioned as Zadik (initial Z).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RAPHAILO RAFAEL RAFA DANON, known as ADMIRAL TOGO, son of ZADIK*, born on October 15, 1912* in Mostar, as one of the ten children of the merchant Zadik and Estera Danon (The children were named David, Avram, Mirjana, Sida, Izidor, Sara, Rifka, Makso, Mo\u0161o, and Rafael. There were a total of 19 houses belonging to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9313,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[318,331,316],"tags":[317,333],"prezime":[381],"class_list":["post-12124","partizan","type-partizan","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-26-35-g-en","category-poginuli-1942-en","category-poginuli-u-bih-en","tag-bataljon-en","tag-jevreji-en","prezime-d-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; Seferovi\u0107, Mensur (1957): \u201eTajna partijske \u0107elije<\/a>\u201c, Sarajevo; Seferovi\u0107, Mensur (1970): Pred o\u010dima grada<\/a>, \u00bbInformativni centar Mostar\u00ab, nagrada \u00bb14. februar\u00ab Skup\u0161tine op\u0161tine Mostar, 1970; http:\/\/www.most.ba\/108\/083.aspx<\/a> \u00a0; grupa autora: Spomenica Mostara 1941-1945.<\/p>\r\n

Photo of the memorial plaque<\/em>: S. Demirovi\u0107<\/p>","ptb_partizan_datum_rodzenja":"(1913. Mostar \u2013 1942. Nevesinje)","ptb_partizan_godina":"29","ptb_partizan_galerija_1":{"url":["http:\/\/partizansko.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/kupaci-na-plazi-Stari_most_1939_1.jpg.jpg","http:\/\/partizansko.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/spomenik-holokaustu-mostar-5.jpg","http:\/\/partizansko.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/jevreji-mostar-eng.jpg"],"link":["","",""],"title":["Swimmers on the beach near Old bridge in 1939. It has not been confirmed whether Rafo Danon is in the picture. Source: CIDOM https:\/\/www.cidom.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Stari_most_1939_1.jpg.jpg"," holocaust monument in Mostar","http:\/\/jewsinbosnia.eu\/eng\/mostar-eng.jpg"],"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_prepravke":"Corrections: Rafo Z. DANON (1913. Mostar \u2013 1942. 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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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These are their stories.\r\n\r\nRecommended reading: Romano, Dr. Ja\u0161a: Jevreji Jugoslavije 1941 \u2014 1945. \u017ertve genocida i u\u010desnici NOR<\/a>, Srbo\u0161tampa, Belgrade; Romano, Dr. Ja\u0161a (1972) Jevrejski istorijski muzej, Zbornik 2<\/a>, Belgrade; Romano, Dr. Ja\u0161a, Jevreji u logoru na Rabu i njihovo uklju\u010divanje u narodnooslobodila\u010dki rat; <\/a>See a text in English about Mostar Jews here<\/a>.","parent":0,"count":11,"filter":"raw"}],"prezime":[{"term_id":381,"name":"D","slug":"d-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":381,"taxonomy":"prezime","description":"","parent":0,"count":34,"filter":"raw"}]},"ptb_featured_image":{"url":"http:\/\/partizansko.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/no-picture.png","title":"no-picture","caption":""},"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/partizansko.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/partizan\/12124","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":2,"href":"https:\/\/partizansko.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/partizan\/12124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15000,"href":"https:\/\/partizansko.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/partizan\/12124\/revisions\/15000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partizansko.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/partizansko.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partizansko.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partizansko.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12124"},{"taxonomy":"prezime","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partizansko.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prezime?post=12124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}