Dara Dragišić

Dara Dragišić in 1944

Dara Dragišić (Serbian: Дара Драгишић; 1921–1944) was a Yugoslav partisan.

Dragišić was born in Sarajevo in 1921, the daughter of World War I lieutenant colonel Velimir Dragišić. She grew up in Peja.[1] In World War II, she served with the Yugoslav resistance in the First Macedonian-Kosovo National Liberation Brigade.[2] She participated in fighting at Klenovec, Kičevo, and Bukovac. Her right hand was seriously injured in June 1944.[1] She was chosen by her platoon to be their political delegate.[2] Dragišić was killed in battle on 22 September 1944.[1]

Dragišić was awarded the Order of the People's Hero in 1953 for her participation in the war,[1] and she was one of several Yugoslav partisans that was memorialized in folk songs over the following decades.[3] All kindergartens in Peja were named in Dragišić's honor until 1999.[1]

References

1. "Lepotice i lavice Peći" [Beauties and lionesses of Peć]. Pečat (in Serbian). No. 308. 2014-02-28. Retrieved 2023-03-27.
2. Jancar-Webster, Barbara (1990). Women & Revolution in Yugoslavia, 1941-1945. Arden Press. p. 88. ISBN 9780912869094.
3. Рад ... Конгреса Савеза фолклориста Југославије [Work of the Congress of the Union of Folklorists of Yugoslavia] (in Serbian). Vol. 14. Савез фолклориста Југославие. 1967. p. 78.