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Place of Birth: Belgrade, Belgrade District
About Saša Božović
- Saša Božovic (Serbian Cyrillic: ???? ???????) (Belgrade, 4 August 1912-Belgrade 10 December 1995) was a doctor, writer and participant in the antifascist resistance of the Yugoslav Partisans during World War II in Yugoslavia.
- Together with Darko Šilovic she co-authored "Tebi moja Dolores" ("For you, my Dolores"), a work which was republished seven times and was the most read book in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1980.
- She graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Medicine in 1937.
- After the April 1941 German bombing of Belgrade in Operation Retribution she left the city while pregnant and moved to Podgorica in modern-day Montenegro.
- Since her husband was one of the main organizers of the 1941 Uprising in Montenegro, Italian forces imprisoned her and subsequently sent her to a concentration camp in the Albanian Kingdom.
- She was later sent to a hospital in Tirana where she gave a birth to her daughter Dolores, named after Dolores Ibárruri, republican heroine of the Spanish Civil War.
- She was liberated in exchange for Italian soldiers taken hostage by Partisan forces.
- Saša was working as an organizer of the Partisan war hospital.
- Her daughter Dolores, called "Little Partisan" by Sava Kovacevic, died from consequences of low temperature, hunger and exhaustion on 7 March 1943 during the Battle of the Neretva.
- Her grave was in a village that after the war in 1953 ended up below the artificial Jablanica lake.
- After the Belgrade Offensive she became a military delegate at the Yugoslav Red Cross and in 1944 she became a member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia.
- She was awarded the Commemorative Medal of the Partisans of 1941.
- After the war she had two sons and one daughter.
- In 1976, on Saša's birthday, she her first granddaughter was born and the parents insisted that the child be called Dolores.
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