Milja Toroman, a 17-year-old nurse from the Partisan XI Krajina Brigade (of the IV Division), posing with a wide smile on her face, and a German submachine gun on her shoulder, for photographer Žorž Skrigin, in a small village at Knešpolje, at the foot of Kozara. Before she was photographed, the young nurse was actually unarmed, even more modestly dressed and did not feel like smiling; in order to make a more striking image, the photographer dressed her in a sweater, hung a weapon over her shoulder, fixed her hair and the Soviet cap on her head, and told her to smile. After the war, the photograph of the pretty (and long-time anonymous) Kozara girl was published for years in school-books and various other publications in Yugoslavia, as a symbol of Partisan struggle, youth and beauty.
Text: Ivan Ž.
Photographer: Žorž Skrigin, Theatre of People's Liberation.
Date: winter 1943/44.
Location: unknown, Yugoslavia.
Original caption: unknown.
File source: Jelena Batinić, "Women and Yugoslav Partisans" (p. 227).
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Milja Toroman, sedamnaestogodišnja bolničarka partizanske XI krajiške brigade (IV divizije), pozira sa širokim osmehom na licu, i nemačkim automatom o ramenu, fotografu Žoržu Skriginu, u jednom seocetu na Knešpolju, pod Kozarom. Mlada bolničarka je pred fotografisanje zapravo bila nenaoružana, još skromnije obučena i nije joj bilo do smeha; radi upečatljivijeg snimka, fotograf joj je obukao džemper, o rame okačio oružje, popravio frizuru i namestio sovjetsku kapu na glavi, i rekao da se nasmeši. Fotografija lepe (i dugo anonimne) kozarčanke posle rata je u Jugoslaviji godinama objavljivana u školskim čitankama i raznim drugim publikacijama, kao simbol partizanske borbe, mladosti i lepote.
Tekst: Ivan Ž.
Fotograf: Žorž Skrigin, Kazalište narodnog oslobođenja.
Datum: zima 1943/44.
Mesto: nepoznato, Jugoslavija.
Originalni natpis: nepoznat.
Izvor fajla: Jelena Batinić, "Women and Yugoslav Partisans" (str. 227).
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