Adila Opijač Fejić

In memoriam

Adila Fejić - "MOSTARSKA MATI" - a mother who lost four sons and a daughter in the fight against fascism in World War II Author Mahmud Konjhodžić for tačno.net: At parting, Eso said to his mother: When freedom comes, know that I will be among the first... Her silence was a sign that she survives everything very deep in her heart - that's how Adila Fejić is, a mother who lost four sons and a daughter when they were in the prime of their youth. When the people of Mostar were fleeing the bombing, her family also fled to Cim, a nearby village. At that time, Adila already knew about the death of her children, but she was not allowed to cry. Because that was a time when mothers weren't even allowed to cry for their dead sons - the Ustashas even watched for a mother's tears if her son was a partisan. Adila was arrested twice, asked where her children were, but she remained silent. And she didn't even know how to sign their minutes. However, it was not only the Ustasha who broke into her home, the Chetniks did it as well. When they came to pick up her son Šefka, an architecture student, the house was surrounded by Chetniks and Italians. The cunning creatures were not allowed to knock on the old door with the rattle, so as not to alarm the fighter, so that he would not escape from them over the yard and the fence walls around the low houses. They unlocked the door of the house with a key and entered quietly, as thieves do. They caught Šefka while he was sleeping and took him to prison, then to Dubrovnik fortress Lovrijenac, which was turned into a prison, and then to a camp in Italy. After the capitulation of Fascist Italy, he returned to Mostar and died somewhere near Bileća as a partisan. And the son Esad was arrested first, one of the first arrested communists after the occupation of the country. One traitor pointed the finger at Esa, in the war of the famous hero and the partisan courier, and he was arrested. This is the guy, the student, who escaped from the Ustasha truck in the summer of 1941 when he was being led to his death. He told everyone that they were being led over the pit to be killed, that they should all run away. But nobody wanted to. Esa jumped up and ran away. He fled towards the Neretva by unknown paths through the rocky fields and the mud of Mostar. He swam three times across the Neretva and saved himself, the only one from those days when the Ustashas spread death everywhere. The sons Ešref and Džemal went to the partisan detachments and survived the difficult days in the fifth offensive, so they went down to the city with the Mostar Battalion and found shelter in their parents' house. A well-camouflaged shelter was arranged on the shisha, and since the apartment was in the center of the city, it was not raided. There was a window on the roof through which you could go outside, then across the courtyard and the garden. But that was not necessary. The police did not come to look for them and they soon left Mostar with the first guys, who, after recovering, went out again to the free area above the city. Each of Adila's children told their mother: "If you don't get a letter for a long time, know that I'm not alive, because I'll be in touch regularly..." Adila received letters, and as soon as one of the children stopped arriving, she would later find out about their death. When she heard about the death of her first son, Džemal, she took it calmly. That's how she was. She said: "If I cry, people will run away from me..." Her daughter Samija was also arrested and taken to Jasenovac. She was killed there. After leaving the city with the Mostar battalion, Džemal and Ešref were killed. The last to die was Esad, who came to Mostar several times as a courier. Once he arrived with his inseparable friend Hus Orman, in full military gear. They came to mother Adila. They decided to take pictures in the middle of the occupied city, in the daytime. They asked Mersa, Esad's sister, to take the machines under a plow to the yard of the house of Ziba and Hadži Ibrahim Fejić, who were also connected to the movement through their children. Mersa went twice, carrying one small machine each, and so she carried them through the city, under the sun. Esad and Huso took pictures in partisan uniforms. Then Mersa took the machines to Mazoljice so that Esad and Huso would leave Mostar. At parting, Eso said to his mother: When freedom comes, know that I will be among the first... However, the city was liberated, and Esad was not there, although no one had heard that he was killed. Soon the sad news arrived. He died in the last battles in Čapljina, What can be said about a mother whose five children disappear. And Adila also lost two brothers, one of whom was a doctor, Dr. Asim Opijač, in the village of Dubrave, since Adila's family is from the Stolac area. Mahmud Konjhodžić: "Mostarka", Veselin Masleša, Sarajevo, OOUR Štamparija Mostar, 1981.

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