Nada Dimić (1923 - 1942)

Thu Sep 06, 1923

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Nada Dimić, born on this day in 1923, was a Yugoslav communist who was tortured by the Ustaša and killed in the Stara Gradiška concentration camp, posthumously proclaimed a People’s Hero of Yugoslavia.

When Yugoslavia was invaded in June 1941, she joined the 1st Sisak Partisan Detachment, the first Partisan unit in Croatia. The same year, the Ustasha police arrested her in Sisak, but as they transferred her to the prison in Zagreb, she swallowed poison in order to avoid interrogation.

Dimić survived the poisoning and was later rescued. She was eventually caught working as a spy by the Italians, who surrendered her to the Ustaša police on December 3rd, 1941, who then tortured her.

She refused to give them any information and was sent to the Stara Gradiška concentration camp in February 1942. Nada Dimić was murdered there a month later, aged eighteen.