Slobodan Bajić Paja

Slobodan Bajić Paja (1916–1943) ) was a Yugoslav Partisan and recipient of the People's Hero of Yugoslavia. Pećinci, Novi Karlovci, Brestač, Donji Tovarnik, and Sremska Mitrovica bear his name. He also has a city library named after him in Ruma.

Before the Croatian War of Independence, the school in Šidski Banovci also bore his name but the Croatian government decided to rename it afterwards. 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. Although the Public Television of Bosnia and Herzegovina subsequently attempted to investigate the matter, competent investigative institutions in Tuzla refused to open a formal investigation. Elementary School Slobodan Bajić Paja in Manđelos Elementary School Slobodan Bajić Paja in Sremska Mitrovica Public Library Slobodan Bajić Paja in Ruma