Orlando Kučić

At the end of Ivana Žorža Street towards Škurinje, the Orlando Kučića Street begins on the left and connects to the Kućički put.

Who Orlando Kučić was told to me by his now-deceased sister, Mrs. It's Nives Kucic. We met at the Drenova Retirement Club and I must say that with considerable suspicion she agreed to answer my questions about her brother because, as she said, these are things and times that are little talked about today.

But she opened her soul a little bit and said:

Orlando was a year younger than her, born on November 19, 1929. They lived on Boka, and went to school at the Drenova Old School. At the beginning of 1944, Orlando, along with several Drenov boys, one might say, went, as Nives says, into the woods. By all accounts, Ivan Žorž was in the same group. Orlando was a courier and carried information between bases that Nives said had numbers.

One night he helped Orlando carry the wounded. Tired, fell asleep on a wet moss. Soon, unfortunately, he fell ill – he got an inflammation of the bruise, a plaurita as Nives says. My mother cooked hot soup every day, but it didn't help. At the hospital, the Germans asked him to be delivered to them on three occasions with the intention of transporting him to Dachau, but the doctor did not allow him, noting that he was too weak to be transported and that his health condition was critical anyway. He died in the hospital as a boy, at the age of 15. He was buried in the old cemetery of Drenova.

Nives Kučić

 And this is how Spartac Črnjarić was told by his mother Agricola, born on Drenova in 1924, so he sent me an e-mail:

Mat said to me:

One Sunday, young men from about 16 flights from Dolnja Drenova go to Lokva -Tito Francetić, Ferruccio Superina, Orlando Kučić and Ivan Žorž. On Lokve they wanted partisans for Učka.

Orlando was ill and died. My mat was at the funeral.

Spartaco Črnjarić