BORIVOJE BORO ZUROVAC, son of DRAGO, born on April 18, 1920*, in Mostar, locksmith by trade. Prominent activist and one of the first fighters, member of the Communist Youth Union (SKOJ) and the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ), member of the Central Committee of SKOJ for Mostar. He was part of the first group of volunteers, known as the 28 Mostar Communists, who went to the eastern part of Herzegovina to work on developing an uprising in the region during the summer of 1941. The detachment, led by Savo Medan, set off late in the evening from the Bjelu\u0161ine neighborhood, armed with 16 rifles and 150 rounds for each rifle. Each fighter had a revolver and at least two “Kragujevka” rifles. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He ended up leaving the detachment and returning to Mostar. Was arrested as a hostage by the Italians for the sabotage – the fire at the Tobacco Factory in Mostar in April 1942, when a large warehouse building burned to the ground. On that occasion, Savo Deli\u0107, \u0160efkija Pa\u0161i\u0107, Jovan \u017deraji\u0107, and Husnija Rebac<\/a> were executed by firing squad. The other detainees were taken to prisons or camps in Dalmatia, while the four prominent activists, Dr. Zvonko Mari\u0107<\/a>, Vinko D\u017eidi\u0107<\/a>, Tripo Uljarevi\u0107<\/a>, and Borivoje Zurovac, were immediately executed upon their arrival in Herceg-Novi in June 1942.<\/p>\n\n\n\n * according to the information in the “Spomenica Mostara 1941-1945”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Excerpt from the literature about an illegal city action involving Boro:<\/p>\n\n\n\n “After dark, \u017divota Neimarevi\u0107 gathered a group of communists and us SKOJ members. In our group, there were: Boro Bala\u0107<\/a>, \u0110ole Bala\u0107<\/a>, Obrad Slijep\u010devi\u0107, Boro Radan<\/a>, Boro Zurovac, Gojko Samard\u017ei\u0107<\/a>, Ibro D\u017eeferovi\u0107, Vasa Maslo, Todor Neimarevi\u0107, and myself. We entered the abandoned buildings within the barracks compound. We entered over the wall in Pe\u0161inovac because we heard there was a guard at the gate. Gojko Samard\u017ei\u0107 and Boro Radan<\/a> stayed outside to guard and wait for us to hand them what we brought out. Following \u017divota’s instructions, we only brought out military equipment: weapons, ammunition, grenades, tent wings, topographic maps, and other items. We brought out 17 military rifles, caliber 7.9 mm, two crates of rifle ammunition, and two crates of hand grenades. There was an open crate of ammunition for a 9 mm pistol, plenty of scattered rifle ammunition gathered in a pouch, tent wings, multiple topographic maps, 2 pistols, 2 compasses, as well as a typewriter and various small items – papers, pencils, and crayons. We handed all of that to Gojko and Boro, and they carried it across the street and hid it behind the gate of the New Cemetery. Then we transferred everything to the cemetery and hid it in the graves and in the grass between them, and the next day we transferred it to the Eagle’s Nest.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BORIVOJE BORO ZUROVAC, son of DRAGO, born on April 18, 1920*, in Mostar, locksmith by trade. Prominent activist and one of the first fighters, member of the Communist Youth Union (SKOJ) and the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ), member of the Central Committee of SKOJ for 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. 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