Rada Vranješević

Rada Vranješević (Serbian Cyrillic: Рада Врањешевић; 25 May 1918 – 26 May 1944) was a Yugoslav political activist and resistance leader in Bosnia during the Second World War.

Vranješević was born in the village of Rekavice near Banja Luka, in the north of the Austro-Hungarian Condominium of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which became part of Yugoslavia the same year.

Her conservative mother, Anđa, was the sister of Branko Zagorac, who had been sentenced to three years of prison for his part in the 1914 assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo.

In 1933, she enrolled a merchants' academy and joined a Communist youth organization, but was considered too young and physically frail to take part in its activities.

Such inter-ethnic romance was "unusual and bold" at the time, but Vranješević succeeded in winning her clerical family's approval for both their relationship and political activities.

She was arrested the same year after organizing a strike action and released only due to intervention of the government minister Branko Čubrilović, her father's acquaintance.

Filipović was arrested and sent to Danica concentration camp in late June, and in early July Vranješević's parents and sister Ljuba were deported to Serbia.

Vranješević was one of only four women, among c. 170 delegates, to take part in the State Antifascist Council for the National Liberation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ZAVNOBiH) in Mrkonjić Grad on 25 November 1943.