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Enver \u0106emalovi\u0107 recalls:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Before departing for Bahtijevica, I sent Omer Puzi\u0107 Okica to Mostar with a short letter to the Local Committee, requesting them not to send new fighters and supplies to the Battalion due to the Chetnik coup, as we were also retreating from Zijemalja. Okica was very young, a big child, lively, resourceful, and brave youth, which is why I chose him as a Chetnik courier. Okica managed to break through the Chetnik and Ustasha patrols and reach Mostar (\u2026)”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n *According to the book “Spomenica Mostara 1941-1945.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" OMER PUZI\u0106 OKICA, son of SALIH, born on September 1, 1925* in Mostar, worker, member of SKOJ since 1941, in the Battalion since the end of 1941, Chetnik courier. During the Chetnik coup in June 1942, he was sent as a courier to Mostar, arrested by the NDH police in Mostar, and handed over to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9313,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[320,315,316,346],"tags":[406,317,396],"prezime":[431],"class_list":["post-13154","partizan","type-partizan","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-logori-en","category-poginuli-1943-en","category-poginuli-u-bih-en","category-mladi-od-18-en","tag-brigada-ljubo-sercer-en","tag-bataljon-en","tag-logor-mamula-en","prezime-p-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; grupa autora: Spomenica Mostara 1941-1945. \u00a0<\/p>\r\n Photo of the memorial plaque<\/em>: S. Demirovi\u0107.<\/p>","ptb_partizan_datum_rodzenja":"(1926. Mostar \u2013 1943. Ribnica)","ptb_partizan_godina":"17","ptb_partizan_galerija_1":{"url":["http:\/\/partizansko.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Brace-Puzica.jpg"],"link":[""],"title":["Bra\u0107e Puzi\u0107a street in Mostar (google maps)"],"description":[""]},"ptb_partizan_poruka_":"Do you know any details about the life of this fighter? Send us<\/a> your stories and photographs. Let's preserve them from oblivion!","ptb_partizan_ploca":{"1":"http:\/\/partizansko.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Puzic-Omer-IMG_2926-rotated.jpg","2":"http:\/\/partizansko.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Puzic-Omer-IMG_2926-rotated.jpg"},"ptb_partizan_spisak_info":["partizan_spisak_info_1","partizan_spisak_info_2","partizan_spisak_info_3"]},"ptb_taxonomy":{"category":[{"term_id":320,"name":"concentration camps","slug":"logori-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":320,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":89,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":315,"name":"died in 1943","slug":"poginuli-1943-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":315,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":183,"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":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":406,"name":"Brigade \u201cLjubo \u0160ercer\u201d","slug":"brigada-ljubo-sercer-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":406,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"![\"\"](\"http:\/\/partizansko.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/ljubo-secer.jpg\")
Most prisoners from Mostar released from Italian prison camps after the capitulation of fascist Italy opted to join the Slovenian units. One group of Herzegovinians joined the \"Ljubo \u0160ercer\" Brigade.","parent":0,"count":6,"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":396,"name":"logor Mamula","slug":"logor-mamula-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":396,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":15,"filter":"raw"}],"prezime":[{"term_id":431,"name":"P","slug":"p-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":431,"taxonomy":"prezime","description":"","parent":0,"count":45,"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\/13154","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":4,"href":"https:\/\/partizansko.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/partizan\/13154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16413,"href":"https:\/\/partizansko.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/partizan\/13154\/revisions\/16413"}],"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=13154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partizansko.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partizansko.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13154"},{"taxonomy":"prezime","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partizansko.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prezime?post=13154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}