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Today’s session of the Serbian Assembly, in which Ivica Dačić should be elected speaker of parliament, as required by regulation, was chaired by Smilja Tišma (91), the oldest member of the new convocation of the Serbian parliament.
Tišma was elected a member of parliament on the Socialist Party of Serbia – United Serbia list, although she is not officially a member of any party. After today’s session of the Assembly, the new government is entering the final phase, and Serbia will be closer to the final answer to the question of who will be the new ministers.
Although, according to official data, she has entered the tenth decade of her life, she still emphasizes that she is not sure how old she really is, as her neighbors and friends assured her that she was born in 1931 or 1932.
In due course, he told details about his incredible fate …
She is not sure how old she is. She officially writes to 91. Neighbors and friends assure her that she was born in 1931 or 1932, she herself believes that she is a few years younger. She has an infinitely good life and even work experience, but also an energy that even decades younger than her does not have, writes “Kurir”.
Even now, she does not shy away from challenges and responsibilities, so presiding over the Assembly will not be a problem for her either. It will not be the first time that you manage a large number of people.
– I have been to many congresses, both youth and parties, and I managed somewhere, that’s not a problem for me – he said, before dealing today with the Serbian MPs whose debate was heated at times, and at times on the verge of laughter. .
She also says she was persuaded to get back into political waters, though she won’t reveal who.
– Ivica Dačić is a representative of the young generation. He was a pioneer when I held important positions. I grew up early, at the age of 11 I became a native of Skoje – Smilja Tišma continues the story and goes back to the beginning.
She survived two camps during WWII! She was born and raised in Western Slavonia, where she lost her father as a child.
– On April 17, 1941, they took 18 peasants led by my father. These are villains. What bothered them, a peasant, a father of four? He was expelled on April 17 and we at the beginning of June, a mother with four children, with other Serbian families, he says.
And as long as he remembers his father, he cannot hold back the tears. “I remembered my father, who was taken naked and barefoot when they took him out of the cherry tree he was picking at that time. I took his suit to one of his barracks and that was the last time I saw him.”
A mother with four children, of whom Smiljka was the eldest, was taken to the Veliki Grđevac camp shortly after.
– Only later did I learn that it was a cattle fair. I remember we were in a big green field. We sleep on the floor. He was supposed to go to school that year. From there they transferred us to Bjelovar, where there were many people. Some were transported from there to Serbia, but many families returned home, including us. It was late fall. When we returned home, my mother walked constantly, she did not sleep, she was afraid that they would kill us. They killed my uncle, my aunt, my grandmother, my aunt’s two young children… Somehow we survived that winter with the help of our neighbors, who were Croatians – he says.
The following year, Smiljka found himself back at the camp with his mother, sisters and brother.
– Again in June … Again in Veliki Grđevac, then in Bjelovar. We visited five camps, the longest we were in Sisak and Jastrebarsko. In Sisak, we were separated from our parents, that is, from our mother. They say there was a glass factory, where they put us children. We slept on parquet or concrete, like who, but they didn’t touch our children, they probably wanted to become Croats. From Sisak, the children were then transferred to Jastrebarsko, to a monastery, he adds.
Smiljka was released in mid-1943. “Our neighbor Uncle Mata, a Croat who guaranteed us, took us out. When he died, I erected a monument to him as a sign of gratitude.” However, when the four children arrived home, horror awaited them. “Our house was burned down, so we lived with our neighbors and relatives until the end of the war.”
– The war ended and he came to Belgrade with his sisters and brother, where he already had two uncles. However, the children were placed in homes in Novi Sad, Negotino and Belgrade. “Then I graduated from Law School, after which I ran alone with the president, but they saw me at a meeting. I suppose they liked my courage, my speed… They hired me in the ministry and there I spent my entire working life. They say I was diligent. He retired 14 years ago and now has health problems. “I have leg problems, I’ll be in the hospital for treatment for three months. It’s good to walk. I ‘earned’ that as a kid at camp.
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