Tihomir Miljković

Tihomir Miljković was born in 1941 in Novi Jankovci. During the Second World War his father was mobilised and later killed whilst a member of the Croatian Home Guard. As a result, his family suffered during Yugoslavia, and Tihomir Miljković was seen as a fascist child by the government structures. Despite everything, his grandparents provided a happy childhood for him. He was very attached to his grandmother, who had some very advanced ideas and was politically active during the time of the First Yugoslavia. In spite of their poverty, he managed to get a good education; he graduated agronomy and worked as a successful expert in the field. At the beginning of the war in the 1990s he was with his family in Jankovci, a place that he was particularly attached to. In September 1991, following the integration of Jankovci into SAO Krajina, he and his family sought refuge in Vinkovci, where he stayed until the beginning of the peaceful reintegration in 1997. His grandmother, who had stayed in Jankovci, was killed in her own house, which was burnt down. Today he lives in Jankovci and he is retired.