Original scientific paper
HERZEGOVINIAN FRANCISCANS AND THE SAVING OF USTASHA PERSECUTION VICTIMS IN MOSTAR 1941-1943
Hrvoje Mandić
orcid.org/0000-0002-7331-7645
; Croatian Documentation Center Of The Homeland War in Bosnia and Herzegovina Mostar, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Abstract
The Herzegovinian Franciscans Fr Dominik Mandić, Fr Leo Petrović, and Fr Bonicije Rupčić distinguished themselves by their humanitarian and charitable role in Mostar in the period from the establishment of Independent State of Croatia (Nezavisna Država Hrvatska – NDH) in April 1941 until the capitulation of Italy in autumn 1943. The administrative structure of the Herzegovinian Franciscans guided by Bishop Alojzije Mišić publicly criticized the racial laws of the Independent State of Croatia. Fr Dominic Mandić, Fr Leo Petrović, and Fr Bonicije Rupčić, together with their fellow brothers, organized efforts to save people from the authorities of Independent State of Croatia. They thus saved many Serbs and Jews as well as members of the Croatian Peasant Party and members of the illegal People’s Liberation Movement in Mostar from persecution and death at the hands of the NDH authorities in the period from 1941 to 1943. The article is based on both published and unpublished sources.
Keywords
World War II; Mostar; Franciscans; rescue; Serbs; Jews; Croatian Peasant Party
Hrčak ID:
171375
URI
Publication date:
23.12.2016.
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