Donji Vučkovići

Donji Vučkovići is a village in Croatia, under the Vrbovsko township, in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County.

Name

Donji Vučkovići is also the name of a hamlet of Polača, and a hamlet of Trnovac Glinski. Vučkovići is also the name of a hamlet of Donji Klasnić, a hamlet of Donji Skrad, a hamlet of Dugopolje, a hamlet of Ervenik, a hamlet of Gornja Bačuga, a hamlet of Gregurovec, Mihovljan, a hamlet of Jurga, a hamlet of Kistanje, a hamlet of Lapovac, a hamlet of Maljkovo, another hamlet of Polača, a hamlet of Poznanovec, a hamlet of Rajić Brdo, a hamlet of Sinj, a hamlet of Stojmerić, a hamlet of Velika Crkvina, a hamlet of Vrpolje.

History

WWII

On 3 August 1941, the Ustaše arrested 85 (or 63) Serb railway workers in Srpske Moravice. These were transferred to Ogulin, then Koprivnica, then Gospić then Jadovno where they were killed. Simo Jakšić was to work that morning, but at 3:00 Mihajlo Jakšić warned him that the Ustaše had arrived at the station and by 4:00 rounded up all of the night shift work. Simo's wife had is daughter Milka tell manager Šarčević that Simo was sick, and since Šarčević demanded to hear from her mother, her mother came in person, and so Simo survived. Mihajlo Jakšić himself fled across the Dobra to Jakšići, warning second shift workers along the way while his children Stojan and Marija went to the station to call their father in sick only to encounter wailing in front of the Ferenc house and, not far from Jovičin dućan, a column of bound Serbs walking two-by-two toward the station. Marija asked Mitar Jakšić-Miljaljčev, "Mitar, what is this?" (Croatian: Mit, što je ovo?) but he merely silently lowered his shoulders in response to her asking multiple times. After the arrests at the station ended, the house to house arrests began.