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Serbian partisan, Slavoljub “Slava” Ković

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Teenaged Serbian partisan, Slavoljub “Slava” Ković, photographed by the SS before his execution. Due to his defiance in not revealing the names of his comrades, Slavoljub was tortured and had a Communist star carved with a knife on his forehead, and was then executed. Slavoljub Ković, was born on 1924 in Bogatic, Serbia. He issued from a poor family, and had a tough childhood. When he was 3 years old his father died, and due to malnutrition he went to school 2 years late. After elementary school, he went to tailoring school, but never finished it because World War II broke out. He joined the partisans, but was soon captured by the Nazis in Serbia. They took him to the concentration camp near Sabac and tortured him in order to get details about resistance movement. He was tortured repeatedly, but never broke, but sadly did not live to see his enemies defeated.