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Template:FixBunching Stjepan "Stevo" Filipović (Cyrillic script: Стјепан "Стево" Филиповић) (1916–1942) was a Yugoslav Partisan who was executed during World War II and posthumously declared a National Hero of Yugoslavia.
Filipović was born on 27 January 1916 in Opuzen, Croatia in the last days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Before the outbreak of the Second World War he lived in Mostar and Kragujevac, then both part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. He joined the workers' movement in 1937, and the Communist Party of Yugoslavia in 1940. Filipović was arrested in 1939 and sentenced to a year in prison.
Filipović was commander of the Partisans' Tomnasko-Kolubarski unit in Valjevo by 1941. He was captured on 24 February 1942 by German forces and subsequently hanged in Valjevo on 22 May 1942. As the the rope was put around his neck, Filipović defiantly thrust his hands out and denounced the Germans as murderers. He urged the people to resist and implored them to never cease resisting. At this moment, a subsequently-famous photograph was taken from which a statue was cast .
Filipovic was made a National Hero of Yugoslavia on 14 December 1949 .The town of Valjevo has a statue dedicated to him, "Stevan Filipović". A monument was also erected in his home town of Opuzen in 1968, but was torn down in 1991.
References
- Sinclair, Upton; Sagarin, Edward; Teichnerhe, Albert; Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest p. 438; L. Stuart, 1963
- Burns, Richard; The Blue Butterfly: Selected Writings p. 144; Salt, 2006 ISBN 1844712583
External links
- Filipović at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Narodni heroji Jugoslavije, Mladost, Belgrade, 1975.
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