Occupation blast furnace worker Known for Being on a banknote | Name Arif Heralic | |
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Born 5 May 1922 ( 1922-05-05 ) Zenica, Kingdom of Yugoslavia Died 17 June 1971(1971-06-17) (aged 49)
Zenica, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia | ||
Arif Heralić (5 May 1922 – 17 June 1971) was a Bosnian Roma metal worker on a blast furnace in Zenica. He had 11 children and issues with alcoholism and mental illness. As a disabled worker, Heralić died in extreme poverty in 1971.
Banknote and iconography
His picture was taken by N. Bibić, a Borba news photographer, in 1954 and from the papers he came to feature on a 1,000 Yugoslav dinar banknote issued from 1955 to 1981, re-dominated to ten new dinars since 1965. He is still (as of 2013) popular as an icon of industrial worker in the former Yugoslavia.
References
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