Original scientific paper
THE ORGANIZATION AND WORK OF THE REGIONAL AND MUNICIPAL COMMITTEE FOR AID TO PEOPLE IN ZAGREB 1941—1942
Narcisa Lengel-Krizman
Abstract
The author shows — mostly using unpublished archival sources — the activity of the organization of the Narodna Pomoć (NP — National Aid) in Zagreb in the eve of the war, and especially during 1941—1942. In the first section of the contribution the work of the Regional Committee of the NP for Croatia and the committees for specialized work is described: The Committee for Aid to Spanish Volunteers, the Committee for Concentration Camps and Prisons, and The Committee of the National Liberation Fund. In the second section the work of the Municipal Committee and the Regional Committee of the NP in Zagreb is described while the third deals with the growing of the NP into a new antifascist organisation, the Narodnooslobodilački odbori (NOO — The National Liberation Committees). From the Occupation to the end of 1942 an amount of almost three million Kunas was raised through the NP, while the amount of goods, clothes, medical and technical supplies and other material collected vas also great. In 1943 in Zagreb the NP disappeared as an independent organization and merged completely into the NOO which became the political organ of the National Liberation Movement (NOP). The NP became the most broadly based antifascist organization in Zagreb during the first two war years and it gathered a wide circle of sympathisers and antifascists from all social levels. This proves that the NOP started to develop in Zagreb right from the first days of the occupation and that it lasted continually right down to final liberation.
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Hrčak ID:
164930
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Publication date:
8.1.1970.
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