Žarko Zrenjanin "Uča" ( sr-Cyrl, Жарко Зрењанин, ; 11 September 1902 – 4 November 1942) was a

partisan Partisan may refer to: Military * Partisan (weapon), a pole weapon * Partisan (military), paramilitary forces engaged behind the front line Films * ''Partisan'' (film), a 2015 Australian film * ''Hell River'', a 1974 Yugoslavian film also know ...

and National Hero of Yugoslavia. The city of

Zrenjanin Zrenjanin ( sr-Cyrl, Зрењанин, ; hu, Nagybecskerek; ro, Becicherecu Mare; sk, Zreňanin; german: Großbetschkerek) is a List of cities in Serbia, city and the administrative center of the Central Banat District in the autonomous pro ...

, in

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, is named after him, since 1946. Zrenjanin was born in

Izbište Izbište ( sr-Cyrl, Избиште, ; hu, Izbistye) is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Vršac municipality, in the South Banat District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority (86.74%) and its population is 1,464 a ...

. He became a leader of the

Vojvodina Vojvodina ( sr-Cyrl, Војводина}), officially the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, is an autonomous province that occupies the northernmost part of Serbia. It lies within the Pannonian Basin, bordered to the south by the national capital ...

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and when

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began, the Partisans. Zrenjanin endured torture and months of incarceration by the

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s during the

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. He was released and later killed in Pavliš while trying to escape recapture. File:Zarko Zrenjanin monument.jpg, Monument of Žarko Zrenjanin in

, built in 1952

References

Zrenjanin Žive Žarko Uča
at znaci.net 1902 births 1942 deaths People from Vršac Yugoslav communists Yugoslav guerrillas Yugoslav Partisans members Serbian people of World War II Recipients of the Order of the People's Hero Resistance members killed by Nazi Germany {{serbia-bio-stub