Milosav " Mija " Aleksić ( ; 26 September 1923 – 12 March 1995 ) was a Serbian actor . Aleksić was born in the Gornja Crnuća village within the municipality of Gornji Milanovac , Kingdom of Serbs , Croats and Slovenes . During World War II , when Axis powers occupied the Kingdom of Yugoslavia , 17-year-old Mija Aleksić attended high school in Kragujevac . On 21 October 1941 , as a retaliation to sporadic Partisan guerilla attacks in the area , German occupational authorities committed one of the worst massacres in regional history ( Kragujevac massacre ) – shooting several thousand men and boys of Kragujevac , including entire high school classes . Mija Aleksić managed to escape and was one of the few surviving men of his generation in his native town
Kragujevac massacre
Kragujevac massacre
Mija Aleksić