NIKOLA MILI\u0106EVI\u0106* ZEC, son of MARKO, born on August 21, 1925, in Mostar. He learned the trade of auto mechanics. He became a member of the Communist Youth League (SKOJ) in 1941. As a member of SKOJ and an underground operative, he was assigned to the “Poglavnik’s Bodyguard Battalion” in Zagreb, together with Mladen Antunovi\u0107 and Ante Mati\u0107, for intelligence activities. When he obtained leave, he joined the partisans. According to one source, “they did not gain significant sources of information and eagerly awaited their first leave and arrival in Mostar to join the partisan Konjic battalion. (The Ustasha uniforms in which they arrived among the partisans were exploited for anti-partisan propaganda by the Chetniks during the ‘Chetnik coup’ in 1942).” He died as a fighter of the Mostar Battalion and a member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ) in April 1944, shortly before the detachment was incorporated into the Thirteenth Herzegovinian Brigade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mensur Seferovi\u0107 left two brief notes about Nikola Mili\u0107evi\u0107 in the book “Mostar Medleys”:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Regarding his departure to the Ustasha in 1941, in the words of Mladen Antunovi\u0107 (p. 250): “I was not pleased when I heard that a few of us were supposed to wear Ustasha uniforms,” recalled Mladen Antunovi\u0107, a retiree in Belgrade. “Fear could be seen on everyone’s face. It was as if everyone wondered what needed to be done among the Ustasha, where to go, what if we were discovered, a great ordeal. We knew how much the Ustasha were hated among the people, that you couldn’t tell anyone, not even your closest neighbor and friend, that you had put on the uniform of the black or yellow Ustasha executioners for the Party’s mission. None of us were cowards, but we were afraid of becoming marked sheep for years to come. At the second meeting, Mehmed Dvizac came again and told us that it was decided for Ilija Tomi\u0107, Nikola Mili\u0107evi\u0107, also known as Zec, and me to go to the Ustasha. I was trembling all over.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Regarding his departure to the partisans in 1943: “In May, Nikola Mili\u0107evi\u0107 also arrived in Mostar. He was impatient and requested leave ‘due to his mother’s illness,’ but he didn’t return to Zagreb. He was told to report to the German military police in the South Camp, where he completed a one-month course. In the meantime, the fifth offensive had ended, and fighters from the disbanded Mostar Battalion unexpectedly arrived in Mostar. Nikola Mili\u0107evi\u0107, although he was a military policeman, went into hiding until the end of July 1943 when several fighters from the Mostar Battalion and other people from Mostar went to the village of Dobr\u010d in Podvele\u017eje (\u2026).”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n *In the book “Memorial Book of Mostar 1941-1945,” the surname is written as MILI\u010cEVI\u0106.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NIKOLA MILI\u0106EVI\u0106* ZEC, son of MARKO, born on August 21, 1925, in Mostar. 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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. 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