Sloboda Trajković

Sloboda Trajković (7 October 1918, in Vrnjci Spa – 9 May 1942, in Belgrade) was a National liberation fighter and Ivo Lola Ribar’s fiancée.

[1] The Trajković family consisted of the father, Svetolik, distinguished Belgrade apothecary, the mother, Milena, son, Miroslav, daughter, Milica, a pharmacy magistrate, Sloboda, a chemistry student and Vera.

Since Belgrade was bombarded, neither the dinner nor the wedding happened because Ivo and Sloboda joined the National freedom fighting movement.

When Lola joined the partisans, he wouldn’t let her go with him because he doubted that she would endure the hardships she would be subjected to due to her frail build, instead he insisted that she goes to her aunt in Vrnjci Spa where she could be protected.

[3] The writer Nada Marinković published a romanticized biography of this heroine “Legend of Sloboda the maiden“ in 1980 (Belgrade: Narodna knjiga; Titograd: Pobjeda}.