Judita Alargić

Judita Alargić-Stambolić (Novi Sad, 1 August 1917 — Belgrade, 12 June 2011) was a participant in the National Liberation Struggle and a socio-political worker of the Socialist Republic of Serbia. She was a board member of the Anti-Fascist Women's Front (AFŽ) and continued her political career after the Second World War in the Union of Communists of Serbia.

Biography

Alargić was born on 1 August 1917 in Novi Sad (then a part of Austria-Hungary). Before the Second World War she was a member of the revolutionary labor movement, whilst working in the textile industry in Belgrade, where she was shocked by the conditions workers were subjected to. In 1939 became a member of the then illegal Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ).

From 1941, during the occupation of Yugoslavia, Alargić was based in Obrenovac, Belgrade. She joined the Central Committee of the KPJ for Obrenovac and was active in the party during the preparations for the armed uprising. She served as a courier between the Posavina Partisan Detachment (sh) and the Provincial Committee of the KPJ for Serbia. After the first Nazi offensive and the withdrawal of partisan forces (sr) to Sandžak, she helped to organise the partisan hospital in Radoinja, near Nova Varoš.

From 1943 she served near to Bihać as an instructor of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. By the end of the year she was appointed as a member of the Politodela of the Thirteenth Proletarian Strike Brigade (sr). In September 1944, she was assigned to party work in Vojvodina, where she remained until the end of the war. She came out of the war with the rank of reserve major of the Yugoslav People's Army.

Recognition Alargić received multiple honors for her service in the Yugoslav resistance, including the Commemorative Medal of the Partisans of 1941, the Order of Merit for the People with a Golden Star (sr), the Order of Bravery and the Order of the Partisan Star with Rifles.

Personal life Alargić was married to the revolutionary Petar Stambolić (1912-2007).