Rada Vranješević

Rada Vranješević (Serbian Cyrillic: Рада Врањешевић; 25 May 1918 - 26 May 1944) was a Yugoslav political activist and resistance leader in Bosnia during the Second World War.

Vranješević was born in the village of Rekavice near Banja Luka, in the north of the Austro-Hungarian Condominium of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which became part of Yugoslavia the same year. Her family, noted for its teachers and priests, originated from Krupa na Vrbasu. She was a daughter of Đorđe Vranješević, a priest of the Serb Orthodox Church and an active member of the Agrarian Party, with whom she was very close. Her conservative mother, Anđa, was the sister of Branko Zagorac, who had been sentenced to three years of prison for his part in the 1914 assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo. Rada and her older sister Nevenka (later a teacher) were greatly influenced by their uncle's leftist ideas; other siblings were a younger sister named Ljuba (a dental technician) and a brother who drowned in the Vrbas river.

Vranješević attended primary school in a village near Prnjavor, and gymnasium in Derventa and Banja Luka. She aspired to become a teacher but was expelled in 1932 due to her affiliation with the outlawed Communist Party. In 1933, she enrolled a merchants' academy and joined a Communist youth organization, but was considered too young and physically frail to take part in its activities. This nevertheless again led to expulsion from school. By this time she was romantically involved with the Muslim journalist Safet Filipović, who too was a Communist sympathizer. Such inter-ethnic romance was "unusual and bold" at the time, but Vranješević succeeded in winning her clerical family's approval for both their relationship and political activities.

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