Slobodan Bajić Paja

Slobodan Bajić Paja (1916–1943)[1]) was a Yugoslav Partisan and recipient of the People's Hero of Yugoslavia.

[1] Slobodan Bajić Paja was born in the village of Banovci[1] in Croatia where he lived until age six.

[1] Elementary Schools in Indija,[2] Pećinci,[3] Novi Karlovci,[4] Brestač,[5] Donji Tovarnik,[6] and Sremska Mitrovica[7] bear his name.

However, the bust of Slobodan Bajic Paja in front of the school remains, and one of the streets in the village still bears his name.

Unfortunately, at the same time a monument to Slobodan Bajic Paji together with mausoleum of 33 anti-fascist partisans in Kalesija was destroyed and the bones were then confiscated and lost by local Bosniaks authorities four months after the end of the war in Bosnia.