Review article
NEW CONTRIBUTIONS FOR THE BIOGRAPHY OF ILIJA JAKOVLJEVIĆ
Davor Kovačić
; Croatian Institute of History, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Before World War II Ilija Jakovljević was a distinguished writer, journalist and attorney who successfully led his lawyer’s office in Zagreb. As a supporter of the Croat Peasant Party he became the editor of the Croatian Daily (Hrvatski dnevnik). In 1939 he became the president of the Society of Croatian Writers and restarted the magazine Contemporary (Savremenik). After the establishment of the Indepedent State of Croatia in 1941 he was arrested and sent to the concentration camp in Jasenovac, and soon transferred to the Stara Gradiška camp. He was released from the camp in December 1942, and in September 1944 he joined the partisans. After the war his political views brought him in conflict with the new communist authorities. He was arrested in 1948. Communists planned to use him as a witness in the trial against the arrested Croatian communist official Andrija Hebrang. At the end of October 1948 Jakovljević died in prison under the unclear circumstances. The authorities informed his family that he had committed suicide by hanging himself.
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161944
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Publication date:
26.4.2002.
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