Boško Buha ( sr-cyr, Бошко Буха; 1926 – 27 September 1943) was a young
Yugoslav Partisan and an honored icon of the
Yugoslavian resistance during World War II.
Early life
Boško Buha was born into a
Serb family in the
Slavonian village of
Gradina, near
Virovitica in today's
Croatia.
[Narodni heroji Jugoslavije](_blank)
'', Mladost, Beograd, 1975 In 1941, after the
Axis invasion of the
Kingdom of Yugoslavia and the establishment of the
Independent State of Croatia, his family was targeted by the
Ustaša and had to seek shelter in Serbia.
Career
He came to
Mačva, where in 1941 he joined the Mačva detachment of the
Yugoslav Partisans.
He was active for a short time in the liberated
Užice. After the retreat of Partisans from Serbia he joined the 2nd
Proletarian Brigade of
YNLA
The Yugoslav Partisans,Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian, Slovene: , or the National Liberation Army, sh-Latn-Cyrl, Narodnooslobodilačka vojska (NOV), Народноослободилачка војска (НОВ); mk, Народноослобод ...
as a fighter in the 4th battalion. He soon distinguished himself as one of the most skilled bombers in a series of battles. His brigade assigned him to be their delegate to the First Congress of the Anti-fascist Youth of Yugoslavia.
At the end of 1943 Buha died when he was ambushed by
Chetniks
The Chetniks ( sh-Cyrl-Latn, Четници, Četnici, ; sl, Četniki), formally the Chetnik Detachments of the Yugoslav Army, and also the Yugoslav Army in the Homeland and the Ravna Gora Movement, was a Yugoslav royalist and Serbian nationa ...
. After the war, Boško Buha received the title of
People's Hero of Yugoslavia.
Legacy
A
theatre house in
Belgrade
Belgrade ( , ;, ; Names of European cities in different languages: B, names in other languages) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city in Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers a ...
is named after him. In 1978, director
Branko Bauer made a film about his life.
References
1926 births
1943 deaths
People from Virovitica
Serbs of Croatia
Yugoslav Partisans members
Yugoslav military personnel killed in World War II
Recipients of the Order of the People's Hero
Child soldiers in World War II
Date of birth missing
Grenadiers
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