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Vaso Lajšić, Mihailo’s father, was killed by Ustashas on August 16 , 1941 near his own home
Mihailo’s Mather, Stoja, with her four children survived concentration camps of Cerovljane, Jasenovac and Grubisno Polje
and was deported to Velika Pisanica in Bilogora. She returned home in November 1943.
Mihailo was born in 1929 in Kingdom of Yugoslavia. When he finished elementary school in June 1941,
his village was under Independent State of Croatia, so he has got this Elementary School Certificate of Completion.
Commission to assess the war damage of Bosanski Novi district issued following document to Mihailo’s mother Stoja Lajšić in 1946,
saying that family suffered damage worth 327,700 dinars of that time, but Lajšić family never received any compensation.