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Štefica Galić
Štefica Galić (born 16 March 1963) is a Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnian-Herzegovinian journalist and human rights activist. During the Croat–Bosniak War, Galić saved about a thousand people from internment in a detention camp. She is a vocal critic of nationalist politics. Since September 2019, Štefica Galić has been protected by the Bundestag. Wartime activities Štefica Galić is an ethnic Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croat from the Herzegovina, Herzegovinian town of Ljubuški, in southern Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1992, the Croat–Bosniak War broke out, part of the larger Bosnian War and the more larger Yugoslav Wars. The Bosniaks of Ljubuški were rounded up by the Croatian Defence Council on 15 August 1993. Štefica Galić and her husband, photographer Nedjeljko "Neđo" Galić, worked to prevent the deportation of the Bosniaks of Ljubuški to the detention camps of Dretelj camp, Dretelj, Gabela camp, Gabela, and Heliodrom camp, Heliodrom. The Galićs falsified ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kozarčanka
( sh-Cyrl, Козарчанка, lit=Woman from Kozara) is a World War II photograph that became iconic in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Shot by Yugoslav artistic photographer Žorž Skrigin in northern Bosnia during the winter of 1943–44, it shows a smiling female Partisan wearing a Titovka cap and with an MP-40 slung over her shoulder. The subject of the portrait is Milja Marin (; sr-cyr, Миља Марин, ), a Bosnian Serb from a village at the foot of Mount Kozara. Shortly after the war, she married a fellow Partisan Pero Marin and lived in the town of Prijedor; she died in 2007 at the age of 81. ''Kozarčanka'' was featured in widely circulated school textbooks, war monographs and posters, as well as on the cover of Merlin's 1986 album '' Teško meni sa tobom (a još teže bez tebe)''. Milja's identity as the subject of the photograph was not widely known in Socialist Yugoslavia. Background In April 1941, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia was invad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
