Istorija 20. Veka (Feb 2019)
Prilozi za biografiju Vojislava Mišića
Abstract
In a marriage of Živojin Mišić and Lujza Mišić three sons and three daughters were born. The youngest son, Vojislav, was born on July 1, 1902 in the City of Valjevo. In the interwar period, Aleksandar implemented his knowledge, as engineer of horticulture, on the property situated in Aleksandrovo (Macedonia) and was politically active (the President of the Municipality of Petrovac and Bunardžik). After Bulgarian occupation started, in June 1941, occupation authorities dislodged him to Belgrade. Opposite to his brother Aleksandar, who was one of leading figures in the Movement of Ravna Gora, Vojislav became a member of a competing, Communist Movement, and a commander of one of Kolubara Brigade units. Vojislav was deceived by his brother Aleksandar that their sister died under accidental circumstances and sent to Struganik, where he stayed until the start of German offensive in December. He came back to Belgrade in December and voluntary gave up to the Department of Special Police. He was interrogated on December 23, 1941, and his statement witnesses that he kept as secret intentions of his partisan combatant, so his brothers work and leading man of the Movement of Ravna Gora. After the interrogation he was sent to Gestapo and imprisoned in Banjica concentration camp on January 26, 1942. After the intervention of his mother Lujza, who complained to the Military Commander of Serbia, Paul Bader, he was released from the Camp on April 2, 1942. Until the end of the occupation he lived peacefully in Belgrade. He was one of the witnesses in a Communist regime trial against General Dragoljub Mihailović in 1946. He shortly worked as an agricultural advisor, but in 1948, he was arrested under accusation of being a sympathizer of the Soviet Union and sent to Goli otok camp, where he spent three years imprisoned. After release he worked in the City Department for Green Infrastructure in Belgrade. He died in July 29, 1974 in Belgrade. These previously unpublished archival documents which is going to be published in this work, represent an important contribution to a complex family history of great Serbian army leader.
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