Marko Mihailović
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Marko Mihailović | |||
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| Born | 21 February 1886 | ||
| Died | 1969 | ||
| Nationality | Yugoslavs | ||
| Citizenship | Kingdom of Yugoslavia | ||
| Occupation | Royal Yugoslav Army divisional general | ||
Marko J. Mihailović (Serbian: Марко Михаиловић; Belgrade, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, 21 February 1886 - Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1969) was a Royal Yugoslav Army divisional general of Serbian origin.[1]He was in command of the 47th Division "Dinarska when Germany Invasion of Yugoslavia|attacked the Kingdom of Yugoslavia on 6 April 1941 before he was captured and taken to a German POW camp.[2]Before that, he was the chief of the Military Academy (Serbia)|Military Academy.
General Marko Mihailović was captured in May 1941 and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp in Nazi Germany, where he spent four years before being freed by the Allied Forces. As a stateless refugee, he spent several years in Italian campo profugi (refugee camps) in Trieste and Eboli [3]before obtaining a visa to emigrate to Canada.[2]
As post-war Serbian Émigré|émigré increased,[4]Mihailović along with other like-minded émigrés in Canada and the United States of America formed an organization related to their own war and post-war experiences. The founding assembly was held on 17 June 1950 at the Saint Sava Serbian Orthodox Monastery and Seminary in Libertyville, Illinois. The founding of Srpska Bratska Pomoć or Serbian Brothers Help [5]was sponsored by the great Serbian clergyman, Bishop Nikolaj Velimirović, who give it the name. These patriotic Serbs performed their humanitarian duty towards their brothers and sisters who were in need. The founding assembly in the U.S. elected Major Milutin P. Lilić[6]as their first president. Meanwhile, a Canadian organization, based in Toronto, also named Srpska Bratska Pomoć ("Serbian Brothers Help") with the same exact mission to assist the needy, sick and old veterans left behind in displaced person camps and hospitals in Europe was formed. This founding assembly elected its first president Marko Mihailović, who at the time was the most senior of all the former POW officers in Canada. Today the "Brothers Help" association continues with its mandate as a humanitarian aid group for the aged and infirm in Canada and abroad[4].
Marko Mihailović died in Toronto in 1969. He was 83.
References
- ↑ hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=Marko+Mihailovi%C4%87&dq=Marko+Mihailovi%C4%87&printsec=frontcover
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Biography of Major-General Marko J. Mihailović (1886 – 1969), Yugoslavia". generals.dk.
- ↑ https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Tre%C4%87e_zasedanje_Antifa%C5%A1isti%C4%8Dkog_ve%C4%87a/_WfmZsP_gc0C?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=Marko+Mihailovi%C4%87&dq=Marko+Mihailovi%C4%87&printsec=frontcover
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Serbs_in_Ontario/3eERAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=Marko+Mihailovi%C4%87&dq=Marko+Mihailovi%C4%87&printsec=frontcover
- ↑ "The History – Serbian Brothers Help".
- ↑ https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Spomenica/SGnQAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=Milutin+P.+Lili%C4%87&dq=Milutin+P.+Lili%C4%87&printsec=frontcover
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