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Rakovac Quarry Partisan School Memorial

Rakovac Quarry Partisan School Memorial

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Rakovac Quarry Partisan School Memorial

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Location: Vojvodina, Serbia

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3. Kamenolom Memorial Complex – Beli Majdan (White Quarry) — Rakovac Cave loop from Stari Ledinci

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Liberation Routes

October 30, 2024

The quarry was a state-owned stone mine for the extraction of trachyte stone. Its modern exploitation started in 1937.
After the occupation in 1941, the quarry was placed under military control and came under the command of the local Ustasha organization. The director of the quarry, engineer Josip Suić, had a pro-Yugoslavian and anti-fascist orientation, as was the case with most of the workers in the quarry. Suić opposed the violent methods of the Ustasha in Rakovac village and the miner's colony. He had constantly been writing letters to higher authorities and to the Ministry of Public Works in order to prevent the oppression conducted by the Ustasha and German troops in Rakovac quarry. In this way, he managed to save the lives of many locals, including those of numerous partisan activists and supporters. He also succeeded in removing the military commander of the Rakovac quarry, Josip Milanković (who subsequently committed suicide), and installing a new commander, Dr. Melvinger, a staunch supporter of the partisans.
Although the quarry was owned and run by the Independent State of Croatia, the place became a significant stronghold for the partisans. The workshop of the quarry was used for the repair of partisan weapons, served as a hideout for the ill and wounded, and, after the villages of Ledinci and Rakovac were burned in 1943, many homeless villagers were assisted by the quarry administration. They were given jobs (real or fictitious), as well as a place to live and eat. By the end of 1943, the quarry had established a partisan school for children from Ledinci and Rakovac, as well as the first pioneer organization.
Workers from Rakovac quarry did not just help the partisans. From the beginning of the war, more than 50 workers joined the partisan units, and 25 of them died in combat. Additionally, 17 workers fell victim to fascist terror in Rakovac.

Memorial plaque in Rakovac Quarry
// „U ovoj zgradi radila je Partizanska škola u NOB-u od septembra 1943. godine.“
„From september 1943 in this building operated the Partisan School during the NOB (People's Liberation Struggle).“//

[This site is part of the Liberation Routes Hiking Tour "The Liberation Walk" (6km)]
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Rakovac Quarry Partisan School Memorial

1. Veliki Gradac – Beli Majdan (White Quarry) — Rakovac Cave loop from Stari Rakovac

2. Beli Majdan (White Quarry) — Rakovac Cave – Veliki Gradac loop from Stari Rakovac

3. Kamenolom Memorial Complex – Beli Majdan (White Quarry) — Rakovac Cave loop from Stari Ledinci

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