Hrvoje Magazinović
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Hrvoje Magazinović (Zadar, Habsburg Monarchy, 29 May 1913 - 10 April 2014 in his 101st year of life) was a
Hrvoje Magazinović was born in Zadar on 29 May 1913. г. He attended primary school on the island of Molat and in Split, where he graduated from the Real High School in 1932. He graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Belgrade in 1937, and obtained his master's degree in business law at the Faculty of Law in Zagreb in 1970. He practiced law as a trainee in Split and Banja Luka. He also published several papers in the legal field.
Even during his student days, he decided politically for JNP Zbor, whose Banovina secretary was in Banja Luka from 1939 until the break-up of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1941. Before the Ustashi persecutions, he managed to escape by fleeing to Belgrade. There he is joined by his fiancée Zora Kesić of Banja Luka, whom he married.
During the civil war, he cooperated with the anti-communist Serbian Volunteer Corps, taught at the Univeristy of Belgrade, and in 1944 when the Soviet troops liberated Serbia he withdrew to Slovenia in the fall of 1944, and then to Italy. After staying in the Forli and Eboli camps, he moved to Trieste, where he was captured by the Yugoslav secret police known by the acronym -- Udba -- on 23 March 1949. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison in Postojna. After almost 11 years of imprisonment, with the first nine months of severe torture, and a stay in prisons in Ljubljana, Belgrade, Sremska Mitrovica and Pozarevac, he was released on 29 November 1959.
After two years of successful work on legal affairs in Belgrade's Auto transport, Udba expelled him from Serbia. From 1963, in the Split Shipyard, he worked on commercial legal affairs. He retired in 1990.
He described his memories in his memoirs "Through a painful century", which you can read through New Videl.
Hrvoje Magazinović, the author of the book of memories "Through a painful century", gave an extensive interview for the Radio-Television of Republika Srpska, lasting an hour and a half, since then the author Valentina Lekanić made a documentary about his experiences during World War II in Nazi-occupied Serbia. The interview was conducted by history professor Zoran Pejašinović, and the film was broadcast in two parts, on 4 and 11 March, on the First Channel of RTRS.
Through a collage of Hrvoje's memories and photographs, Lekanić and Pejašinović managed to paint Hrvoje's portrait, which is well known to the readers of his memoirs, but which sheds light on many events from the Banja Luka period of Hrvoje's youth.
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