SOFIJA SOFKA ONE\u0160\u0106UK*, daughter of JAKOV, born on July 27, 1926, in Grude, employed as a clerk at the Tobacco Factory in Mostar, where her mother Katica worked as a cook. Member of the Communist Youth League (SKOJ) since 1941, joined the Battalion in January 1944 as a nurse. Killed in an attack on the partisan hospital in Gru\u0161\u0107a near Konjic in April 1944. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sister of Mirko One\u0161\u0107uk<\/a>, who died as fighter in 1943. A street in Mostar is named after the One\u0161\u0107uk family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n EXCERPT:<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Sofija was one of those girls and Mostar women who were wholeheartedly dedicated to the movement and willingly took on tasks that posed immediate danger to their lives. She was a very brave, open, and resourceful girl, skillfully evading traps and police surveillance. In particular, she was constantly pursued by the Ustasha Zvonko Mi\u0161eti\u0107, who was always on her trail.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n An example of an action in which Sofija participated was also recorded:<\/p>\n\n\n\n “As Katica had relatives in Opuzen, Sofija would sometimes go there to bring vegetables. In addition to that, she would carry out certain tasks on that route. So, when a group of people from Mostar had to join the partisan unit, weapons and ammunition needed to be transported for them. Sofija took her vegetable basket and packed as much as she could, including leaflets. At the train station, a German officer noticed the beautiful girl and began courting her. Sofija knew some German and engaged in conversation with him. The German officer was traveling on the same train. As a gentleman, he offered to carry her basket onto the train. She accepted the offer, but only as assistance, to carry it together. Besides, it made her feel safer to pass through checkpoints. In Opuzen, a courier and two or three other comrades were waiting for her at the station. When they saw the German officer carrying the basket with Sofija, they thought she had been arrested and escaped. The German officer continued to be helpful until it was necessary. Sofija thanked him politely for his assistance. When he asked for her address, she naturally gave him a false name and a false street and number in Mostar. The courageous girl returned to Mostar with the vegetables, and underneath them were bombs.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Mahmud Konjhod\u017ei\u0107 recorded Sofija’s death:<\/p>\n\n\n\n “When the fighters of the Mostar Partisan Detachment crossed from the left to the right bank of the Neretva River in April 1944, their hospital remained with 15 wounded and sick partisans in the village of Gru\u0161\u0107i, along with about ten field workers and dozens of security personnel, totaling about 35 people. Three girls from Mostar, Sofija One\u0161\u0107uk, Fatima \u0160eva<\/a> and Vahida Mujan<\/a>, also remained there as nurses. The hospital was well hidden in the forest in huts. However, on April 28, the Chetniks discovered the hospital, attacked its protective unit, and broke it up (…). Among the twenty-eight killed and murdered were these three young women from Mostar (…)”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n * The surname on the memorial plaque should be corrected to One\u0161\u0107uk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SOFIJA SOFKA ONE\u0160\u0106UK*, daughter of JAKOV, born on July 27, 1926, in Grude, employed as a clerk at the Tobacco Factory in Mostar, where her mother Katica worked as a cook. Member of the Communist Youth League (SKOJ) since 1941, joined the Battalion in January 1944 as a nurse. Killed in an attack on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":25490,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[336,316,329,346],"tags":[356,317,330,430],"prezime":[429],"class_list":["post-13086","partizan","type-partizan","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poginuli-1944-en","category-poginuli-u-bih-en","category-zene-en","category-mladi-od-18-en","tag-hrvati-en","tag-bataljon-en","tag-foto-en","tag-onescuk-en","prezime-o-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>, 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; grupa autora: Spomenica Mostara 1941-1945.<\/p>\r\n Photo of the memorial plaque<\/em>: S. Demirovi\u0107.<\/p>","ptb_partizan_datum_rodzenja":" (1926. Grude \u2013 1944. Gru\u0161\u0107a)","ptb_partizan_godina":"17","ptb_partizan_galerija_1":{"url":["http:\/\/partizansko.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Mirko-i-Sofija-Onescuk.jpg","http:\/\/partizansko.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/gimnazija-18.jpg","http:\/\/partizansko.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Onescukova.jpg"],"link":["","",""],"title":["photo of brother and sister Mirko and Sofija One\u0161\u0107uk, featured side by side in the brochure \"Partizanski spomenik u Mostaru\" (1980).","Memorial plaque to the fallen students and professors of the Mostar's Gymnasium. It went missing during the 1992-1995 war.","One\u0161\u0107ukova street in Mostar (google maps)"],"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: Sofija J. ONE\u0160\u0106UK (1926. Grude \u2013 1944. Gru\u0161\u0107a)","ptb_partizan_ploca":{"1":"http:\/\/partizansko.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Onescuk-Sofija-IMG_2933-rotated.jpg","2":"http:\/\/partizansko.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Onescuk-Sofija-IMG_2933-rotated.jpg"},"ptb_partizan_spisak_info":["partizan_spisak_info_1","partizan_spisak_info_2","partizan_spisak_info_3"]},"ptb_taxonomy":{"category":[{"term_id":336,"name":"died in 1944","slug":"poginuli-1944-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":336,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":159,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":316,"name":"died in BiH","slug":"poginuli-u-bih-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":316,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":518,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":329,"name":"Women of Mostar in Concentration Camps","slug":"zene-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":329,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":75,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":346,"name":"younger than 18 years","slug":"mladi-od-18-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":346,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":46,"filter":"raw"}],"post_tag":[{"term_id":356,"name":"Fallen Croatians from Mostar in the resistance movement","slug":"hrvati-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":356,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"Numerous Croats from Mostar were members of the resistance movement as fighters, activists, and sympathizers. Among them are three national heroes.","parent":0,"count":48,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":317,"name":"Fallen fighters of the Mostar Battalion.","slug":"bataljon-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":317,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"[gallery link=\"file\" size=\"medium\" ids=\"7114,7116,7122\"]\r\n\r\nMostar Battalion was formed as the \"Konji\u010dki\" in September 1941. 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. (Source: https:\/\/www.cidom.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Hercegovina-u-NOB-1.pdf<\/u><\/a>)\r\n\r\nAfter the war, a street in Mostar was named after the Mostar Battalion.","parent":0,"count":240,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":330,"name":"foto","slug":"foto-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":330,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":288,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":430,"name":"One\u0161\u0107uk","slug":"onescuk-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":430,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":2,"filter":"raw"}],"prezime":[{"term_id":429,"name":"O","slug":"o-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":429,"taxonomy":"prezime","description":"","parent":0,"count":12,"filter":"raw"}]},"ptb_featured_image":{"url":"http:\/\/partizansko.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Onescuk-Sofija.jpg","title":"One\u0161\u0107uk Sofija","caption":""},"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/partizansko.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/partizan\/13086","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":5,"href":"https:\/\/partizansko.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/partizan\/13086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27890,"href":"https:\/\/partizansko.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/partizan\/13086\/revisions\/27890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partizansko.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/partizansko.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partizansko.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partizansko.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13086"},{"taxonomy":"prezime","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partizansko.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prezime?post=13086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}