Vojin Vojinovic

National hero

People’s hero Aleksandar Vojinović Vojin was born in 1922 in Mirnica, a village near Kuršumlija, in a peasant family. He graduated from the Agricultural High School in Valjevo, and became a member of the League of Communist Youth of Yugoslavia (SKOJ) and a member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ) in 1941. He was one of the organizers of the uprising in Toplica, a participant in the war since 1941, the perpetrator of the action at the Park Hotel in Nis (former Officers’ Home), at that time one of the largest gathering places for German officers in the first days of occupation.

He has been in the Toplica People’s Liberation Partisan Detachment since the first days of the uprising. He was a fighter and a leader, and he came out of the war as a JNA major. He spent most of his working life in many positions in the JNA, and he was the ambassador of the SFRY in several countries.

He was engaged in literary work. He is the author of seven novels and chronicles (“Wolf Times”, “Exile”, “Hotel Park” (). His literary and military works have been translated abroad (Russian, Ukrainian, German, Hungarian, Italian, Slovenian and Macedonian). Aleksandar Vojinović was proclaimed a national hero on October 9, 1953.

Lieutenant General Aleksandar Vojinović-Vojin died in Belgrade on February 7, 1999.

In memory of the action in Nis, the Alliance of Fighters of the People’s Liberation War in Nis, on July 21, 1948, at the Park Hotel, placed a sign that reads:

“One of the first partisans of our region, on the orders of his party and the people, dropped a bomb in the middle of this building in August 1941, destroyed thirty German officers and wounded several of them.

Paving the way for himself, he threw another bomb at fascist officers and soldiers and fired several bullets from a pistol, and managed to go down 7th of July Street, Pavle Orlovića Street, and then to Jeronimov Street and submit a report on the completed task. ”

As can be seen in the text, the name of the perpetrator of the action is not stated. They say that’s how it was then. It is important that the task of the party and the people is accomplished.