Emilija Jakšić

Emilija Jakšić (Belgrade, 29 April 1924 – Belgrade 29 November 1949) was a participant in the National Liberation Struggle and the socially-political worker NR Serbia

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She involved in the youth revolutionary movement when she was still a high school student. Member of the Union of Communist Youth of Yugoslavia (Communist Youth) became in 1940, at sixteen years old, and since August 1941, as an active participant in the National Liberation Movement (NOP), entered in the school management SKOJ. As a youth leader she took part in organizing and implementing the action, diversion and sabotage. She was arrested in the winter of 1941 and during the implementation, although her hands were handcuffed, she managed to escape. A member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ) became in January 1942. In November 1942 he became secretary of the District Committee of the Communist Youth League and a member of the District Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia in Zemun. In October 1943, the Provincial Committee of the CPY for Serbia sent her to work in Šumadija as instructor of the Provincial Committee of the Communist Youth League. In 1944 she became a member of the Provincial Committee of Communist Youth League of Serbia. After the liberation of Yugoslavia she served in various capacities in the Union of Communist Youth of Yugoslavia and the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. She died in a car accident near Obrenovac, 29 November 1949. She was married to Marko Nikezić, then organizing secretary of the District Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia in Belgrade, and later President of the Presidium of the Central Committee of Serbia, who was sacked in 1972. She is the holder of the Partisan Medal in 1941 and the other Yugoslav decorations. One street in Belgrade suburb Nova Galenikain Zemun has her name.

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ŽENE Srbije u NOB / Rada Vujičić...[i dr.]. – Beograd : Nolit, 1975 (Beograd : "Srbija")