Isidor Baruch ( Hebrew איזידור ברוך ; April 23, 1910 , Belgrade - August 18, 1941 , Uzhichki Grad ) - Yugoslav Jewish partisan, participant in the People's Liberation War of Yugoslavia , People's Hero of Yugoslavia . One of the three Baruch brothers (Isidore, Bora, and Joseph) who participated in the war.
| Isidore Baruch | |
|---|---|
| Heb. איזידור ברוך | |
| Date of Birth | April 23, 1910 |
| Place of Birth | Belgrade , Kingdom of Serbia |
| Date of death | August 18, 1941 ( 31) |
| Place of death | Uzichki Grad , Nedichevsk Serbia |
| Affiliation |  Yugoslavia |
| Type of army | guerrilla troops |
| Years of service | 1941 |
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| Battles / wars | The People's Liberation War of Yugoslavia |
| Awards and prizes |  |
| Communications | Bora Baruch (brother) Joseph Baruch (brother) Rachela Baruch-Simich (sister) Berta Baruch (sister) |
Biography
Born April 23, 1910 in Belgrade in the Jewish family of Elijah and Bulina Baruchov. Isidore had brothers Bora and Joseph, as well as sisters Rachel, Simcha and Bert. He studied at the secondary schools of Pozharevac and Niš, as well as at the technical faculty of the University of Belgrade (graduated in 1938 with a diploma in mechanical engineering). During his studies, he joined the revolutionary movement and became a member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia . Arrested more than once for anti-monarchical speeches.
After graduation, Isidor left to work at a factory in Smederevskaya-Palanka , where he showed revolutionary activity and engaged in the involvement of workers in the revolutionary movement, for which he was dismissed. He left for Belgrade and got a job at the Mikron factory, from where he was also fired (for distributing prohibited literature). During his studies, Isidore was interested in culture, which allowed him to translate several books on Marxism into Serbian and publish them with the help of the publishing house Beli Medved.
In mid-1940, Baruch was arrested and sentenced by a state court to 8 months in prison, and in August he was sent to prison in Ada-Tsiganlii . Soon Baruch was transferred to a prison in Bilecha for an attempt to escape, but after the surrender of Yugoslavia in the April war, he escaped from prison, joining the resistance. Until the end of May 1941, Isidor was in an illegal situation, and then, by order of the Serbian Regional Committee, the Communist Party of Ukraine went to Uzice to mobilize volunteers in the partisan movement. In Koserich, he was a partisan leader, and after the formation of the Uzhitsky partisan detachment, he became a commissar (political officer) in the Montenegrin partisan company. A little later, Isidore took a similar post in the Uzhitsky company named after Radoe Maric in the same Uzhitsky partisan detachment.
Isidore Baruch provided significant assistance to the partisan movement in Uzice and its environs. However, on August 18, 1941, he died in a battle against German-Albanian troops. On that day, the 1st battalion of the 724th Wehrmacht infantry regiment and the Albanian gendarmes from Kosovo-Mitrovica surrounded the Uzhitsky company in order to liquidate it. Rota got out of the encirclement, but lost five people dead (including Baruch).
On July 6, 1953, Josip Broz Tito, by his decree, awarded Isidor Baruch the posthumous title of People's Hero of Yugoslavia .
Memory
Several streets in the cities of Serbia are named after Isidore Baruch, as well as an elementary school in Belgrade . In Belgrade, the Baruch Brothers House, in which all three once lived, was declared a cultural monument.
Literature
- Romano, Jaša (1980). Jevreji Jugoslavije 1941-1945: žrtve genocida i učesnici narodnooslobodilačkog rata, Beograd: Jevrejski Istorijski Muzej, Saveza jevrejskih opština Jugoslavije.
- Narodni heroji Jugoslavije. Beograd, Omladina-Mladost-Narodna knjiga. 1975-1982