Zenel Hajdini

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Zenel Hajdini was an Albanian partisan. He was born on May 24, 1910 in Tupalla, Medvedja. In 1928 he enrolled in the Great Madrasa. After the occupation of the country, he returned to his homeland, where as a communist he was engaged in work mainly in the ranks of the population of Albanian nationality to unmask the policy of the occupier in this area. He was the first Albanian in the partisan units of Yugoslavia. He took part in all the fighting and actions undertaken by this unit. He was killed on March 7, 1942 in Gazdinski Rib, in the war against the Chetniks, when the occupier in the territory of Jablanica had engaged about 30 thousand troops.

Early life and career

• Zenel Hajdini, Tupale, near Medvedja, 1910 – Gazdare, near Medvedja, March 7 1942), participant in the National Liberation War and National Hero of World War II.
• He was born in the village Tupal, near Medvedja. The first two grades of primary school ended in the Bay of Sijarines and the other two in Medvedja. Due to his poor economic status, he could not continue his education, so he worked in the municipality of Medvedja as a municipal registration office clerk. Although he managed to find a job, his desire for further education did not disappear. After two years, he went to Skopje and entered the madrasa. There he completed eight years of high school, and then enrolled at the Faculty of Philosophy in Skopje, where he remained until the beginning of the war.
• As a student, he participated in the work of the National Antifascist Student Liberation Movement. He became a member of the Communist Party in 1941.
• After the April war and the invasion of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Zejne stopped his studies and came to the village of Tupala. He began with illegal work in preparing the uprising.
• In August 1941, he joined the partisans and joined the "Kukavica" partisan unit.
• In the autumn of the same year, a group of fighters from "Kukavica" was assigned to go to Jablanica and form a new detachment there. In that group was Zejnel Hajdini.
• He took part in the battles: in Kukavica, in Upper Jablanica, in the fighting in Kremen, during the capture of Leskovac, Vucja, Labana and other battles in this part of the Southeast in the triangle of Toplica. He was also a member of the Jablanica/Jabllanica Party Headquarters.
• He was killed on March 7, 1942, in Gazdinski Rid, near Medvedja, fighting the Chetniks and the Bulgarians.
• By decree of the President of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia, on October 9, 1953, he was declared a national hero.
• National heroes of Yugoslavia. Belgrade: Mladost. 1975.
• Declared People's Hero.
• A series of monuments in Kosovo and in his birthplace preserve the memory of this revolutionary hero.
• Also, in Gjilan the gymnasium is named after him.
• Zenel Hajdini was born in 191 in the village of Tupalla in Medvedja.
• He received his first lessons at the so-called school "at the Mosque of Siarina".
• For a while he worked as a clerk in Medvedja, where he was distinguished by his extraordinary calligraphy.
• After two years he enrolled in the Madrasa of Skopje which had a religious character but in which several foreign languages were taught and where empirical subjects occupied a very important place. After graduating from the Madrasa, he enrolled at the Faculty of Mathematical and Natural Sciences in Belgrade.
• During the continuation of the second year of studies in Belgrade, the well-known demonstrations of March broke out, where Zenel took an active part.
• After the start of the war, Zenel had returned to his homeland to continue his activity as a member of the staff for the Medvedja region.
• Killed by Bulgarian-Chetnik forces on the front line in Gazdare on March 7, 1942.
• The same year, the first Albanian detachment was established in Kosovo, which was named "Zenel Hajdini" detachment in honor of his name and work.
• He was declared the hero of the people in 1953.
• His name was given to twelve primary and secondary schools (in Kosovo in Jablanica and in Macedonia), barracks, streets and squares.
• Some of these schools and streets no longer bear his name because the Serbs changed them after the Kosovo war, but there are also some that unfortunately were changed by the Albanians themselves.

Later years

Zenel Hajdini did not agree that Albanians should remain uneducated and thus be dominated intellectually by their Serb compatriots. He had preferred his way of schooling to other compatriots such as Idriz Ajeti (a well-known academic who made an extraordinary contribution in the field of Albanian language), Zeqir Bajrami (university professor and one of the first authors of the book of geography in the Albanian language) etc., who attended classes at the Madrasa of Skopje several generations later. Zenel Hajdini had several times had meetings with intellectuals from Kosovo such as Rashid Deda (martyr) from Prizren and others, from whom he had asked to supply him with some primers that they would receive in Albania. This dream, like many others, remained unfulfilled.

Family

Zenel left behind many grandchildren who today live in Priština and in the diaspora (France, Germany, USA, England) Here we must definitely mention the name of Hashim Hajdini (son of Zenel's brother Hajvaz) who stood out in the Kosovo war, proving once again that he comes from a large family with a tradition of patriotism. Hashim fought in Fushë Kosovë / Kosovo Polje until his last breath against Serbian police and paramilitary hordes who had attacked his home with unprecedented combat machinery. According to witnesses, more than ten Serbian police and paramilitaries were killed here, while besides Hashim, his two parents Hajvazi and Gjyla also died here. The monument of Hashim Hajdini is located in front of the municipal assembly of Fushe Kosova. Zenel Hajdini was buried in his native village in Tupalla, where even today his work is commemorated by the locals and the students of the primary school that bears his name every March 7.</ref>

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