Stefan Naumov
Stevan Naumov - Stiv (Macedonian: Стеван Наумов - Стив) was a Macedonian partisan and one of the organizers of the Peoples's Liberation Struggle in Bitola area who was declared a People's Hero of Yugoslavia.[1][2]
Biography
He was born on 20 October 1920 in Lepensko village near Bitola and went on Faculty of Engineering in Belgrade in 1938. There he befriended with Kuzman Josifovski Pitu. In 1939, he was elected for a member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. In 1940, he was elected for the secretary of the Local committee of the CPY in Bitola. After Yugoslavia was occupied by the Axis forces in 1941, Naumov worked on the organizing of an armed uprising against the Bulgarian occupation in Bitola area. In April 1942, he was one of the organizers of the Bitola partisan detachment "Pelister".[2][3]
Bulgarian police discovered him on 12 September 1942 during the meeting with Dimitar Bogoevski, near Bolno village. Surrounded and outnumbered, they ultimately killed themselves in order not to fall alive in their enemies' hands.[2]
The house where Stiv was born and lived is now a memorial museum dedicated to him. There is also his monument in the center of Bitola.