E\u0160REF FEJI\u0106 ETA, son of MUHAMED, born on September 5, 1923, in Mostar, a student who attended the Trade School. A football player for “Vele\u017e,” a member of SKOJ since 1941, and KPJ since 1942. In the Battalion since September 1941.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because of E\u0161ref and their other children, their mother Adila was taken to the police: “There, near Heren\u010di\u0107, sat the son of a teacher named Jahi\u0107 in uniform. He interrogated me and just smirked. He asked if I had children and where they were, and I replied that I did, that they were alive and well with their mother, but I didn’t know where they were; they weren’t little for me to keep track of them. They asked about my son D\u017eemal, he was the oldest, they asked about \u0160efko, they asked about Esad and the youngest, E\u0161ref, who was 17-18 years old at the time, and I told them that he went on a mission to procure grain and got delayed somewhere and didn’t return. They then told me to report it if my sons came to me, and if they were not guilty, they would let them go, if they were a little guilty, they would go to prison, and if they were very guilty, they would be shot.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n E\u0161ref survived the Fifth Offensive on the Sutjeska and returned to Mostar with 80 other fighters for recovery. After that, he returned to the battle. As a lance corporal, he perished in \u0110aji\u0107i near Konjic in December 1943; according to records, he drowned in the Neretva River during an operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “The unit in \u0160piljani, under the leadership of the Battalion’s quartermaster D\u017eemal Dizdar, organized an economic action to gather food in \u0110aji\u0107i on December 17. With one platoon, they crossed the Neretva River using a rope with a trapeze for river crossing. While our fighters were collecting food, the Usta\u0161e cut the rope on the Neretva, preventing them from returning to our territory. The Neretva was swollen, and the fords could not be used. E\u0161ref Feji\u0107, a student from Mostar, volunteered to swim across the Neretva tied to a rope. As he entered the water, moving away from the shore, he was carried away by the river’s speed and began to sink. He unfastened the rope but, exhausted, met his death in the waves of the river.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n E\u0161ref was the second of four sons of Muhamed and Adila Feji\u0107, one of the five deceased members of this family that also included: D\u017eemal<\/a>, \u0160efko<\/a>, Esad<\/a>, Samija<\/a>. Two of E\u0161ref’s uncles were killed by Germans (one of them was Dr. Asim Opija\u010d<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n One of the most famous streets in Mostar bears the name of the Feji\u0107 brothers. E\u0161ref’s name was also recorded on a memorial plaque<\/a> for students at Mostar Gymnasium. The plaque disappeared without a trace during the war events of 1992-1995. The well-known song “Mostarska mati” by Mostarske ki\u0161e is dedicated to E\u0161ref’s mother, Adila. In 1972, Mi\u0161o Mari\u0107 published an interview with his mother Adila, which you can read here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" E\u0160REF FEJI\u0106 ETA, son of MUHAMED, born on September 5, 1923, in Mostar, a student who attended the Trade School. A football player for “Vele\u017e,” a member of SKOJ since 1941, and KPJ since 1942. In the Battalion since September 1941. Because of E\u0161ref and their other children, their mother Adila was taken to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":18700,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[318,315,316,306],"tags":[317,395,330,341],"prezime":[394],"class_list":["post-12476","partizan","type-partizan","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-26-35-g-en","category-poginuli-1943-en","category-poginuli-u-bih-en","category-velez-en","tag-bataljon-en","tag-fejic-en","tag-foto-en","tag-gimnazija-u-mostaru-en","prezime-f-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; \u00a0https:\/\/poskok.info\/mostarke-u-doba-okupacije-sloboda-nije-stigla-iz-bajke\/<\/a>; D\u017eemil \u0160arac, \u010dlanak \u201eSa Mostarcima\u201c, Hercegovina br 9, str 221; http:\/\/www.most.ba\/091\/015.aspx<\/a>; http:\/\/rsdvelezmostar.blogspot.com\/p\/fk-velez.html<\/a> ; grupa autora: Spomenica Mostara 1941-1945; article \"Majka iz ulice sinova\", with Adila Feji\u0107, author: Mi\u0161o Mari\u0107, \"Sloboda\" newspaper, 1972 (source: CIDOM)<\/p>\r\n Photo of the memorial plaque<\/em>: S. 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