Professional paper

VJEKOSLAV BALIN, CROATIAN PATRIOT AND MARTYR

ANĐELKO MIJATOVIĆ

Abstract

The author investigates the conditions in which Vjekoslav Balin from Šibenik grew up, his schooling and his escape into exile, time in refugee camps in Italy, inclusion and engagement in political emigration and his study of sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. Based on the available documentation the author follows Balin’s illegal arrival in Zagreb in 1958, his arrest, inquisition in Belgrade, trial in Šibenik and stay in the prisons on Goli Otok (1959-1965), relocation to the correctional facility in Stara Gradiška at the beginning of 1965 and his murder on 25th September 1965 in the local section of isolation and solitary confinement. The author
investigated everything presented on the basis of available documentation and the testimonies of Vjekoslav Balin's fellow prisoners and sufferers.

Keywords

Vjekoslav Balin; victims of the anti-fascist system; communist totalitariansystem; emigrant; prison; political prisoner

Hrčak ID:

153596

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/153596

Publication date:

31.12.2014.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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