Slobodan Bajić Paja

Slobodan Bajić Paja
bust of Slobodan Bajic Paje in front of Banovci school
Born Slobodan Bajić
(1916-06-26)26 June 1916
Banovci
Died 1943
Eastern Bosnia
Resting place unknown
Nationality Yugoslav
Citizenship Yugoslav
Occupation Partisan fighter, author of the manifestos
Awards Order of the People's Hero

Slobodan Bajić Paja (1916–1943[1]) was a People's Hero of Yugoslavia.[1] He was an important leader of the partisans in World War II in Syrmia. During the fight with the Nazis in Eastern Bosnia, he was killed.[1] He was awarded the "Order of the People's Hero" in 1952.

Early life

Slobodan Bajić Paja was born in village Banovci [1] in Croatia where he lived until his sixth year. He was son of a local Orthodox priest in St. Petka's Church.[1] From 1922, he lived in Pećinci in Serbia, where his father was transferred. He graduated from high school in Sremski Karlovci. Slobodan started participating in the work of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia while still in high school but he formally joined the party during his studies at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy in 1938.[1]

Legacy

Elementary Schools in Indija,[2] Pećinci,[3] Novi Karlovci,[4] Brestač,[5] Donji Tovarnik,[6] and Sremska Mitrovica[7] bear his name. His name also has a city library in Ruma.[8] Before the Croatian War of Independence, School in Šidski Banovci also bears his name but the Croatian government decided to rename the school in Elementary School Ilača-Banovci by the villages where the school is located. However, the bust of Slobodan Bajic Paja in front of the school in Šidski Banovci has not been removed, and one of the streets in the village still bears his name. Unfortunately, at the same time a monument to Slobodan Bajic Paji together with mausoleum of 33 anti-fascist partisans in Kalesija was destroyed and the bones were then confiscated and lost by local Bosniaks authorities four months after the end of the war in that country.[9] Although the Public Television of Bosnia and Herzegovina subsequently attempted to investigate the matter, competent investigative institutions in Tuzla refused to open a formal investigation.[9]

Honorific eponyms

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Archived June 23, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.
  2. 1 2 https://web.archive.org/web/20120426005313/http://www.indjija.net/code/navigate.php?Id=49. Archived from the original on April 26, 2012. Retrieved November 28, 2011. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. ↑ Archived December 11, 2010, at the Wayback Machine.
  4. ↑ "TerritorioScuola VideoDemocrazia". Territorioscuola.com. Retrieved 2015-06-26.
  5. ↑ Archived April 26, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.
  6. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20120426005330/http://www.imenik.co.rs/info.php?id=21705. Archived from the original on April 26, 2012. Retrieved November 28, 2011. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. 1 2 "OŠ SLOBODAN BAJIĆ PAJA - Sremska Mitrovica". Sremskamitrovica.org. Retrieved 2015-06-26.
  8. 1 2 "GRADSKA BIBLIOTEKA SLOBODAN BAJIĆ PAJA, Ruma". Telefonski-imenik.biz. Retrieved 2015-06-26.
  9. 1 2 "Rtvfbih - Radio-Televizija Federacije Bosne I Hercegovine". Rtvfbih.ba. Retrieved 2015-06-26.
  10. ↑ "Opština Pećinci - Zvanična prezentacija - OŠ "Slobodan Bajić Paja" Pećinci". Pecinci.org. Retrieved 2015-06-26.
  11. ↑ "OSNOVNA ŠKOLA SLOBODAN BAJIĆ PAJA, Manđelos". Telefonski-imenik.biz. Retrieved 2015-06-26.

Bibliography

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