Stjepan Filipović
Stjepan Filipović (born January 27, 1916 in Opuzen , Austria-Hungary , † May 22, 1942 in Valjevo ) was a Yugoslav communist and resistance fighter . Filipović was executed during the Second World War and posthumously declared a "People's Hero of Yugoslavia".
Life
Filipović was Croatian and was born the second of five children of Anton and Ivka Filipović from the Dalmatian town of Opuzen . Before the outbreak of World War II, he lived in Mostar and Kragujevac .
In the Kingdom of Yugoslavia , Filipović joined the labor movement in 1937 , was arrested in 1939 and sentenced to one year in prison. In 1940 he became a member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia .
After the Balkan campaign of the German Wehrmacht and the defeat of Yugoslavia in 1941, Filipović went to Serbia , led by a collaboration government, to support the communist uprising. Filipović was the commandant of the Tamnavsko-Kolubarski partisan unit in Valjevo . On the night of December 23-24, 1941, he was arrested in Trbosilju by Chetniks loyal to the government . After being tortured , he was sent to a Serbian prison camp in Šabac .
Filipović was sentenced to death by hanging , the execution of which was scheduled for May 22, 1942. When the noose was put around his neck, he raised his arms and shouted: “Smrt fašizmu, sloboda narodu!” ( Death to fascism, freedom for the people! ) He appealed to the Yugoslavs to resist. At that moment a famous photograph was taken that served as the model for a statue .
Filipović was declared the national hero of Yugoslavia on December 14, 1949 . The city of Valjevo dedicated a statue to him. In his hometown Opuzen, a monument erected in his honor was also erected in 1968, but it was destroyed in 1991.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Ziyah Gafic: 1001 photographies qu'il faut avoir vues dans la vie; Quelques instants avant l'exécution . Ed .: Paul Lowe. Éditions Flammarion, Paris 2018, ISBN 978-2-08-142221-6 , pp. 333 (Original Edition : 1001 Photographs You Must See In Your Lifetime, Quintessence Editions , 2017).
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SURNAME | Filipović, Stjepan |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Yugoslav resistance fighter |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 27, 1916 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Opuzen |
DATE OF DEATH | May 22, 1942 |
Place of death | Valjevo |