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Spomenik Vladimiru Periću Valteru

Sarajevo 71000, Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Place Types Park
Address Sarajevo 71000, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Coordinate 43.8559269,18.4126354
Website Unknown
Rating 5
Compound Code VC47+93 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Monday Open 24 hours
Tuesday Open 24 hours
Wednesday Open 24 hours
Thursday Open 24 hours
Friday Open 24 hours
Saturday Open 24 hours
Sunday Open 24 hours

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Admir Veljovich (02/10/2021)

From Prijepolje to Sarajevo there is only one way

Aleksandar Lakić (Leex360) (12/31/2017)

The bust of Vladimir “Walter” Perić – the legendary leader of the Sarajevo resistance movement during World War II – is near Skenderija Bridge, close to the old power distribution center. Walter assumed leadership of Sarajevo’s underground anti-fascist movement in the summer of 1943. The members of this network carried out many acts of sabotage and attacks on German and Ustashe troops. On the night of April 5, 1945, Walter was killed during the final battle that was being waged to win the city’s freedom – he and a group of volunteers were defending the power station against the Ustashe who were intent on destroying them even as they began to withdraw from Sarajevo. He was buried in Spomen Park in Vraca and proclaimed a National Hero of Yugoslavia on July 24, 1953. The legend of this fearless and courageous resistance leader came to life on the big screen when the Bosnian director, Hajrudin Šiba Krvavac, made the movie, Walter Defends Sarajevo (1972), which quickly became one of the best-loved partisan movies of all time.

Zsolt Szabó (09/04/2019)

Vladimir Perić "Valter" (April 1919 - April 6, 1945) was a guerrilla leader in the Second World War in Sarajevo. Almost everyone in the former Yugoslavia knew his figure from the popular series "Valter defends Sarajevo" (Valter brani Sarajevo). During the war he served in Tuzla, Zenica and then in Sarajevo. In Sarajevo, he organized partisan intelligence, including setting up five-man squadrons that could be deployed independently to sabotage, occupy, or protect buildings. Just before the end of the war, Sarajevo was destroyed: a small team defended the city's electrical distribution center from retreating rafters, when a grenade rupture killed his life. Already in his life there was a legend about his activities, his courage, which was later reinforced by the film made about him. On July 24, 1953, he became a posthumous hero of Yugoslavia.