A TOTAL OF 112 VICTIMS OF PARTISANS IN PRISOJE NEAR TOMISLAVGRAD (List)

Memorial in Prisoje, erected on August 12^th, 2018

Prisoje

The town of Prisoje near Tomislavgrad has a story from World War II that is similar to almost all other Croatian towns. This town  also had its victims. Out of a total of 188 victims, whose names are on the memorial, 112 of them are victims of the followers of the Yugoslav communist ideology – the partisans.

Data on the victims of World War II were compiled on the basis of several sources: a census conducted by the parish priest Don Mihovil Zrno on May 17^th, 1989 at the request of the Bishop of Mostar and Duvno at the time, Msgr. Pavle Žanić; the death registry of the Prisoje Parish; data published in Duvanjski Zbornik /The Duvno Collection/; and data from the Prisoje parish census books. Of course, everything was finally checked in the field, that is, after the preliminary data were provided to the general public, both in hard copy and on the website.

On August 12^th, 2018, a memorial to the victims of the two world wars and the Homeland War was unveiled in Prisoje near Tomislavgrad. The monument is called “CROSS – Portal to Eternity”, and  is the work of academic sculptor Anđelko Mikulić, who shaped and arranged five stone blocks with Croatian insignia to form a triumphal arch – a portal in the shape of a cross that symbolizes the passage to eternity.

The names of 188 residents of Prisoje who died in the war conflicts of the 20^th century are inscribed on the blocks. Our deceased do not need this monument; it means nothing to them, but it says a lot about us. We are called upon to honor our dead, to pray for them and to thank them.

List of victims of World War II:

• Ivan Banović, son of Stipan and Drina née Ćurić, born November 5^th, 1919. Killed by partisans on the  “Way of the Cross”  in Dravograd, 1945 (Vrelo)
• Mirko Banović (Drmić), son of Ante and Anica née Gadža, born August 9^th, 1924. Killed by partisans on the  “Way of the Cross”  in Dravograd, 1945 (Vrelo)
• Ante Božičić (Ljubas) aka Vezo, son of Pero and Matija née Sučić, born January 4^th, 1900, married in 1930 (wife Sara née Sučić), six children. Civilian. Killed by partisans in Zidine at Buško Blato on November 5^th, 1943. He was buried by family on the same date at the cemetery in Korita. Luka Ljubičić from Prisoje was killed on the same day, at the same spot.
• Ivan Božičić (Ljubas) aka Jovac, son of Pero and Matija née Sučić, born December 15^th, 1913. Unmarried. He went missing on the   “Way of the Cross”  in Jajce, (Koprivnica) mid-1945.
• Grga Ćavarušić, son of Mijo aka Mile and Iva née Sučić, born September 27^th,  1922. Killed by partisans on the  “Way of the Cross”  in Dravograd, 1945.
• Ivan Ćavarušić, son of Bariša and Mara née Pavić, born March 21^st, 1912. Married. He went missing in 1943.
• Jakov Ćavarušić, son of Ilija and Matija née Beljan, born January 15^th ,1895, married in 1922. (wife Cela née Perković), four children. Killed by partisans on September 29^th, 1942 in Podhum.
• Jozo Ćavarušić, son of Ante and Janja née Drmić, born February 24^th, 1921 (1925). Killed by partisans on the  “Way of the Cross”  in 1945.
• Mate Ćavarušić, son of Jozo and Iva née Perković, born April 16^th, 1923 (1927). Killed by partisans on the  “Way of the Cross”  in 1945.
• Mile Ćavarušić, son of Jozo and Iva née Perković, born February 9^th, 1925. Killed by partisans on the  “Way of the Cross”  in 1945.
• Petar Ćavarušić aka Špevac, son of Ilija and Matija née Beljan, born April 11^th, 1907. Married. He went missing on the “Way of the Cross” in Dravograd in the spring of 1945.
• Ivan Ćosić, son of Ante, born in 1912. Killed during the bombing of Slavonski Brod in 1943.
• Nikola Ćosić, son of Ivan and Ruža née Krišto, born November 8^th, 1933. Child. It happened on Christmas, December 25^th, 1943. He was buried the next day at the Maljevine cemetery. The funeral was led by parish priest Karlo Grbavac.
• Pero Ćosić, son of Ante and Iva née Ljubičić, born April 2^nd, 1909. Killed as a Croatian soldier in an unknown location in 1944.
• Tadija Ćosić, son of Ferdinand and Ruža née Tirić, born August 22^nd, 1920. Unmarried.
• Ante Ćurić, son of Andrija aka Jandro and Jela née Ivančić, born January 30^th, 1902. Married. Killed by partisans near Tomislavgrad in 1945.
• Ante Ćurić, son of Marko and Anđa née Ćurić, born on February 20^th, 1915. Killed on Ivan-planina in February 1945. Declared dead by the decision of the Episcopal Ordinariate in Mostar, no. 106/52, dated February 5^th, 1952.
• Ante Ćurić, son of Stipan and Mara née Batarilo (Vrilo), born June 7^th, 1921. Unmarried. Killed on September 23^rd, 1943 in Jajce. Eyewitness Stipan Ćurić Markov testified to the pastor about this.
• Cvitan Ćurić, son of Luka and Cvita née Ivančić (Podprivala), born March 25^th, 1920, married in 1939 (wife Jaka née Matić), one child. Killed on September 23^rd, 1942 in Jajce.
• Dominik Ćurić, son of Cvitan and Filipa née Sučić, born August 2^nd, 1928, married in 1948 (wife Mara née Drmić), no children. He was in the Yugoslav army. Killed by members of the Yugoslav army in Kavadarci in Macedonia in 1950.
• Frano Ćurić, son of Mirko and Ruža née Krišto, born December 31^st, 1928. Died in Prisoje in 1947. Cause of death: torture in a partisan camp.
• Ivan Ćurić, son of Ante and Kaja née Šola, born in 1912. The Registry of the dead says about him: Killed and went missing on Bradina around June 13^th, 1944. He was officially declared dead in writing by the Episcopal Ordinariate of Mostar, document no. 184/54, dated March 11^th,1954.
• Ivan Ćurić, son of Mate and Mara née Krišto, born September 9^th, 1924 (1921). Killed in Brđani in 1942.
• Ivan Ćurić, son of Vladislav and Cvita née Šola, born July 18^th, 1922 (1920). Killed in Jajce in 1942.
• Jakov Ćurić, son of Mate and Iva née Cikoja, born August 14^th, 1923. Killed in Brđani in 1943.
• Jozo Ćurić, son of Ilija and Luca née Ljubičić, born March 5^th 1914, married in 1933 (wife Mara née Ljubičić), four children. Killed by partisans on September 10^th, 1944 in Omiš. Jozo was wounded in an ambush in Omiš. He was transported to Split, where he died soon thereafter. He received his sacraments.
• Jozo Ćurić, son of Luka and Franjka née Šola, born February 17^th, 1922 (1920).
• Kazimir Ćurić, son of Grga and Iva née Krišto, born February 12^th, 1909, married in 1936 (wife Anđa née Gadža), one child. Killed by OZNA as a partisan at an unknown location in 1943.
• Leon (Lav) Ćurić, son of Ivan and Mara née Tirić, born October 2^nd, 1909, married in 1931 (wife Matija née Sabljić), four children. Killed in Konjic in 1945.
• Luka Ćurić, son of Frane, born in 1909. Killed in 1943.
• Luka Ćurić, son of Stipan and Anđa née Šarić-Alagušić, born July 30^th, 1904, married in 1928 (wife Mara Đivić-Jurčević), four children. Killed on July 10^th, 1943 in Zadvarje.
• Marko Ćurić, son of Jandro and Jela née Ivančić, born April 19^th, 1907 (Podprivala). Married. He was killed by partisans in the vicinity of Tomislavgrad (in Bijelo Polje) in 1945.

• Mate Ćurić, son of Drago and Božica née Sučić, born April 11^th, 1915 (Podprivala), married in 1944 (wife Mila née Ćurić), one child. Killed in an unknown place in 1944.

• Mate Ćurić, son of Ivan and Ruža née Kutleša, born November 23^rd, 1915 (Podprivala), married in 1936 (wife Zorka née Ćurić), two children. “Killed on the run from partisans” on February 20^th, 1945. He was buried the next day at the Maljevina cemetery. The funeral was led by pastor Karlo Grbavac.

• Mijo Ćurić, son of Drago and Božica née Sučić, born October 11^th, 1912. He was killed by partisans on the “Way of the Cross” in Slavonska Požega in 1945.

• Mirko Ćurić, son of Pero and Ruža née Sučić, born September 24^th, 1903, married in 1929 (wife Anica née Sučić; 2^nd wife Anica née Ljubičić, 1942), four children.

• Mijo Ćurić aka Miše, son of Martin and Jaka née Krivić, born May 27^th, 1910, married in 1936 (wife Matija née Ćosić), four children. He was taken away and killed by partisans in an unknown location in 1945.
• Petar Ćurić, son of Mijo and Anica née Ivančić, born June 15^th, 1919. Unmarried. Killed on the  “Way of the Cross” in Koprivnica in the spring of 1945.
• Stipan Ćurić, son of Blaž and Mara née Krivić, born December 31^st, 1913, married in 1939 (wife Kaja née Ivančić), two children. Killed in 1943.
• Stipan Ćurić, son of Mijo and Mara née Ćurić, born April 20^th, 1919 (Podprivala). Killed by partisans in Bijelo Polje in 1945.
• Stipe Ćurić, son of Ivan and Ruža née Kutleša, born October 28^th, 1922. Killed in 1942.
• Stipe Ćurić, son of Tadija and Janja née Ljubičić, born February 5^th, 1921. Unmarried. Killed by partisans on the  “Way of the Cross”  in a camp in Zagreb in the spring of 1945.
• Vid Ćurić, son of Ante and Kaja née Šola, born September 7^th, 1908. Killed by partisans on the  “Way of the Cross”  in an unknown location in 1945.
• Ante Drmić, son of Mile, born in 1918. Killed by partisans on the  “Way of the Cross”  in Dravograd in 1945.
• Jozo Drmić, son of Vid and Mara née Ćurić, born January 5^th, 1912 (Vrilo). Killed in Brđani in 1945.
• Jozo Drmić, son of Matko and Anđa née Kolak, born February 23^rd, 1897. Married in 1923 (wife Kata née Beljan), seven children. Civilian. Captured by partisans and killed in Drmića staje above Prisoje in 1947.
• Luka Drmić, son of Matko and Anđa née Kolak, born April 30^th, 1899, married (wife Anđa née Ćurić), five children. Captain. Killed in 1944.
• Mate Drmić, son of Jozo and Kata née Beljan, born November 1^st, 1925. Killed by partisans on the  “Way of the Cross”  in Dravograd in 1945.
• Mate Ivančić, son of Ivan and Matija née Šarić, born February 19^th, 1926. Killed in Bihać in 1944.
• Mijo Ivančić aka Mile, son of Mate and Ruža née Bošnjak, born November 28^th, 1926. Killed in 1945.
• Vinko Ivančić, son of Jakov and Cecilija née Ćurić, born on July 27^th, 1921. Killed in 1944.
• Vladislav Ivančić, son of Ante and Anica née Ivančić, born March 25^th,  1921. Unmarried. Killed by partisans in 1944.
• Mate Ivanda, son of Marijan and Dragica née Kutleša, born June 22^nd,  1923,  unmarried. Killed on September 23^rd, 1942.
• Stipe Ivanda, son of Marijan and Dragica née Kutleša, born May 30^th, 1918. Unmarried. Killed by partisans on the  “Way of the Cross”  in a camp in Sarajevo in the spring of 1945.
• Ivan Kapulica, son of Ante and Iva née Ivančić, born October 21^st, 1919. Unmarried. Civilian. Killed by UDBA in Prisoje in 1951.
• Mirko Kapulica aka Desnica, son of Ivan and Iva née Kolak-Bilobrk, born July 27^th, 1912, married in 1940 (wife Iva Ivančić), two children. Mirko was arrested on September 3^rd, 1950 in Voštani, and sentenced to death by hanging by the Mostar District Court, and shot in Bišće near Mostar on April 18^th, 1951.
• Stipan Kapulica, son of Ante and Iva née Ivančić, born January 21^st, 1924. Unmarried. He went missing on the  “Way of the Cross”  in Bleiburg in the spring of 1945.
• Ivan Krišto, son of Mijo aka Miše and Franjka née Krišto, born December 31^st, 1920, married in 1942 (wife Mara née Ćurić), one child, died at birth. Killed by partisans on October 20^th, 1944 in Bukova Gora. Buried at the Prisoje cemetery Maljevine a month and a half later, on December 8^th, 1944. The funeral was led by pastor Karlo Grbavac.
• Ivan Krišto, son of Mate and Cecilija née Ćurić, born February 14^th, 1916. Killed by partisans in Koprivnica in 1944.
• Jure Krišto, son of Pero and Iva née Ivanda, born April 22^nd, 1916. Killed by partisans on the  “Way of the Cross”  in Zidani Most in 1945.
• Luka Krišto, son of Cvitan and Kata née Ćurić, born October 24^th, 1912, married in 1938 (wife Dragica née Ćurić), three children. Died on December 20^th, 1944.
• Ante Krivić, son of Pavle and Iva née Ćurić, born February 12^th, 1920. Unmarried. Killed in 1943.
• Ivan Krivić aka Klepić, son of Marko and Agata née Ćurić, born February 8^th, 1893. Married. Civilian. Killed by partisans in Banja Luka in 1942.
• Ilija Krivić, son of Jozo and Kata née Perković, born July 31^st, 1900, married in 1918 (wife Vida Drmić-Banović), four children. Died in 1944.
• Jozo Krivić, son of Ilija and Vida née Banović (Podprivala), born on December 10^th, 1919. Killed on February 24^th, 1942.
• Pero Krivić, son of Stipan and Iva née Ćurić (Podprivala), born March 16^th, 1934. Child. He was playing with a hand grenade thrown by the partisans, which exploded and killed him on March 25^th, 1945. He was buried the next day by family at the Maljevine cemetery.
• Stjepan Krivić, born in 1932. Child. Killed by a partisan bomb he was playing with in 1946.
• Tadija Krivić, son of Stipe and Anica née Ljubičić, born July 19^th, 1920. Killed in Đurđevac in 1944.
• Ignacije Kutleša aka Žujo or Žiga, son of Ante and Kata née Ćurić, born November 19^th, 1931. Child. Died from a bomb left by partisans on July 12^th, 1944. He was buried the next day at the Glavičice cemetery. A girl, Ruža Kutleša,                                       who died the following day, was wounded on the same occasion.
• Jakov Kutleša, son of Ante and Ruža née Ljubičić, born January 30^th, 1921. Killed in 1944.
• Nikola Kutleša, son of Ilija and Anica née Ivančić, born October 27^th, 1921, unmarried. Killed on January 25^th, 1943.
• Petar Kutleša aka Galac, son of Jakov and Jela née Ivančić, born July 2^nd, 1910, married in 1938 (wife Ruža née Sučić), three children. Killed on February 4^th, 1943.
• Ruža Kutleša, daughter of Ante and Kata née Ćurić, born December 4^th, 1933. Child. She was in the house with Žujo Kutleša when he was playing with the bomb left by partisans. When the bomb exploded, Ruža was seriously wounded. She died the next day, July 14^th, 1944. The priest managed to give her last rites. She was buried the following day at the Glavičice cemetery.  
• Ivan Ljubičić, son of Mate and Cecilija née Ćurić, born August 18^th, 1915. Killed in 1944.
• Ivan Ljubičić, son of Stipe and Kaja née Šarić, born June 18^th, 1914. Unmarried. Killed on the  “Way of the Cross”  in Bleiburg in the spring of 1945.
• Jozo Ljubičić, son of Pero aka Perko and Franjka née Šarić, born July 7^th, 1914, unmarried. Killed in 1944.
• Luka Ljubičić, son of Ćiril aka Cirko and Iva née Ćurić, born October 9^th, 1909, married in 1935 (wife Iva née Šijić), four children. Killed by partisans in Zidine at Buško blato on November 5^th, 1943. Buried by family on the same day at the cemetery in Korita.
• Mijo Ljubičić, son of Marko and Matija née Ivanda, born November 28^th, 1934. Child. Died from a bomb he was playing with in 1946.
• Mijo Ljubičić aka Mile, son of Živko and Božica née Krišto, born September 24^th, 1914, married in 1935 (wife Jela née Ćurić), four children. Killed on June 26^th, 1943.
• Pere Ljubičić, son of Mate and Anđa née Ćurić, born February 28^th, 1921. Killed by partisans in Mostar in 1945.
• Stipan Ljubičić, son of Ćiril aka Cirke and Stana née Drmić, born on November 22^nd, 1919, unmarried. Killed on February 10^th, 1943.  
• Stipan Ljubičić, son of Jura and Mara née Ivančić, born October 4^th, 1922, unmarried. Killed on January 1^st, 1945.
• Tomislav Ljubičić, son of Mate and Anđa née Ćurić, born October 3^rd, 1922, unmarried.
• Jozo Perković, son of Mate and Joza née Ljubičić, born March 19^th, 1896, married in 1922 (wife Kata née Krišto), two children. Killed in 1945.
• Mate Perković, son of Ivan and Anđa née Sučić, born September 9^th , 1926, unmarried. Killed whilst serving in the Yugoslav army in Lika on August 15^th, 1949. His death coincided with the Informbiro period.
• Ante Sabljić, son of Mijo aka Miško and Ruža née Šola, born June 12^th, 1914. Killed in 1944.
• Ilija Sabljić, son of Ivan and Filipa née Božičić, born August 18^th, 1910, married in 1938 (wife Jaka née Ivančić), four children. Killed on the  “Way of the Cross”  in Slovenia in the spring of 1945.
• Ivan Sabljić, son of Bono (Brno) and Anica née Ćosić (Vrilo), born April 3^rd, 1914, married in 1942 (wife Anđa née Ivanda), no children. Killed on June 24^th, 1943.
• Nikola Sabljić, son of Mate and Pola née Bošnjak, born October 7^th, 1909, married in 1935 (wife Iva née Ćurić), three children. Killed in 1945.
• Pavo Sabljić, son of Tadija and Filipa née Tirić, born August 3^rd , 1922. Unmarried. Killed in 1943.
• Stipe Sabljić, son of Šimun and Jaka née Krišto, born April 1^st , 1921. Unmarried. Killed on the  “Way of the Cross”  in the spring of 1945.
• Ivan Sučić, son of Mate and Kata née Drmić, born September 3^rd, 1913 (Vrilo), unmarried.
• Mate Sučić, son of Dane and Anica née Sabljić, born October 6^th, 1914, married in 1936 (wife Mara née Šola), three children. Killed by partisans on the  “Way of the Cross”  in Zidani Most in 1945.
• Petar Sučić, son of Luka and Matija née Čulo (Vrilo), born April 12^th, 1910. Unmarried. Killed in 1943.
• Petar Sučić, son of Mate and Kata née Drmić (Vrilo), born January 9^th , 1920, unmarried. Killed on September 23^rd, 1942.
• Stipan Sučić, son of Dane and Anica née Sabljić, born April 14^th, 1923. Unmarried. Killed by partisans on the  “Way of the Cross”  in Zidani Most in the spring of 1945.
• Andrija Šarić aka Jandre, son of Marko and Mara née Kapulica, born February 15^th, 1920. Killed in 1943.
• Ilija Šarić, son of Marko, born February 15^th , 1920. Unmarried. Killed by partisans in Bleiburg in the spring of 1945.
• Mate Šarić, son of Dane (Grga) and Antonija née Ćurić, born August 28^th, 1915, unmarried. Killed on February 4^th, 1943.
• Mijo Šarić, son of Dane (Grga) and Antonija née Ćurić, born October 15^th, 1924, unmarried. Died in Zagreb in 1943.
• Nikola Šarić, son of Marko and Mara née Kapulica, born December 24^th, 1922. Unmarried. Killed by partisans on the  “Way of the Cross”  in a camp in Sarajevo in the spring of 1945.
• Jure Šijić aka Juko, son of Stanko and Ruža née Ljubičić, born October 6^th, 1919, unmarried. Killed in 1943.
• Mate Šijić, son of Stanko and Ruža née Ljubičić, born July 15^th, 1921. Unmarried. Killed in 1942.
• Blaž Šola, son of Pero and Iva née Šola, born February 2^nd, 1927. Killed in 1944.
• Ivan Šola, son of Marko and Anica née Krišto, born April 7^th, 1922. Killed on the  “Way of the Cross”  in Slovenia in 1945.
• Jozo Šola, son of Karlo (Dragutin) and Mara née Pavić, born July 12^th. 1921, unmarried. Killed by partisans near Livno in 1942.
• Mate Šola, son of Andrija aka Jandre and Jela aka Ivančić, born January 7^th, 1921. Killed in 1943.
• Mate Šola, sin of Pero and Iva née Šola, born on May 14^th, 1921, unmarried. Killed on January 29^th, 1944.
• Mile Šola, son of Cvitan and Darinka née Krivić, born July 25^th, 1912. Killed in 1944.
• Mijo Šola aka Miše, son of Ivan and Luca née Škojo, born September 19^th, 1905 (1910), unmarried. Killed by partisans in Zagreb in 1945.
• Dominik Tirić, son of Ivan and Ruža née Ćurić, born May 7^th, 1908. Killed in 1945.
• Pavo Tirić, son of Tadija and Kaja née Sabljić (Vrilo), born September 19^th, 1914, married in 1937 (wife Zorka née Sabljić), two children. Killed on September 25^th, 1944.

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