Vera Jocić (; ; 21 August 1923 – 22 May 1944) was a

Yugoslav partisan The Yugoslav Partisans,Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian language, Macedonian, and Slovene language, Slovene: , officially the National Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments of Yugoslavia sh-Latn-Cyrl, Narodnooslobodilačka vojska i partizanski odr ...

and

People's Hero of Yugoslavia The Order of the People's Hero or the Order of the National Hero ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Orden narodnog heroja, Oрден народног хероја; , ), was a Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Yugoslav gallantry medal, the ...

. She was born in the village of Sindjelić,

Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes The Kingdom of Yugoslavia was a country in Southeast and Central Europe that existed from 1918 until 1941. From 1918 to 1929, it was officially called the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, but the term "Yugoslavia" () has been its colloq ...

, in a Serbian colonists' family and fought in the

Yugoslav People's Liberation War World War II in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia began on 6 April 1941, when the country was invaded and swiftly conquered by Axis forces and partitioned among Germany, Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria and their client regimes. Shortly after Germany attac ...

. She was wounded near Sasa in the Bulgarian occupation zone of Yugoslavia, (today

North Macedonia North Macedonia, officially the Republic of North Macedonia, is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe. It shares land borders with Greece to the south, Albania to the west, Bulgaria to the east, Kosovo to the northwest and Serbia to the n ...

), where she died.Dnevnik
Времеплов 1923 She inspired the famous song "Eyes" by

Aco Šopov Aco Šopov ( ; 1923 – 1982) was a Macedonian poet. He was considered one of the most important poets of Yugoslavia. He took part in World War II in Yugoslavia (1941–45) and his poems written at the time were published as ''Pesni'' (Poems) i ...

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1923 births 1944 deaths People from Gazi Baba Municipality Recipients of the Order of the People's Hero Yugoslav Partisans members Women in the Yugoslav Partisans Yugoslav military personnel killed in World War II Macedonian people of Serbian descent {{World-War-II-bio-stub