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DARINKA (PETRA) BITANGA, née BOJČIĆ, born in Mostar on October 25, 1891. Housewife. Wife of the famous Mostar communist Rade Bitanga , leader of the labor movement in Herzegovina after the death of Gojko Vuković, and mother of the Skojevci members and activists Neđa and Neda. A pre-war activist and political worker who "read Gorky's "Mother" to hundreds of women before the war, and gave lectures on women and their struggle for equality and rights. She participated in the labor movement and cultural and artistic societies with her husband, but was not a member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia herself. Arre
DARINKA (PETRA) BITANGA, née BOJČIĆ, born in Mostar on October 25, 1891. Housewife. Wife of the famous Mostar communist Rade Bitanga , leader of the labor movement in Herzegovina after the death of Gojko Vuković, and mother of the Skojevci members and activists Neđa and Neda. A pre-war activist and political worker who "read Gorky's "Mother" to hundreds of women before the war, and gave lectures on women and their struggle for equality and rights. She participated in the labor movement and cultural and artistic societies with her husband, but was not a member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia herself. Arrested at home by the Germans "while she was kneading bread", and held hostage because the German army's telephone line was cut, two days after the incident, on November 18, 1943. (The Germans ordered the arrest of several Mostar residents who were suspected of being members of the NOP. It was rumored in Mostar at the time that there was no sabotage, and that the cable was cut by "a German military kitchen with a chimney (which) got caught in the wire and thus cut off the connection between the German units in the city.") Publicly hanged on November 19, 1943. hands tied behind her back, with four other members of the NOP: Mujo Selimhodžić Babić , Božo Skočajić , Ekrem Ćurić and Tom Kljujić. As a lasting memory of them, a monument was erected near the Health Center in Mostar, and a memorial plaque at the place where they were hanged.
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