Editing Sarajevo (section)

===Yugoslavia===
[[File:Vjecna vatra, Sarajevo.jpg|thumb|The [[Eternal flame (Sarajevo)|Eternal flame]], a memorial to the military and civilian victims of [[World War II]] in Sarajevo]]

After World War I and pressure from the [[Royal Serbian Army]], alongside rebelling [[Slavs|Slavic]] nations in [[Austria-Hungary]], Sarajevo became part of the [[Kingdom of Yugoslavia]]. Though it held some political significance as the center of first the Bosnian region and then the Drinska Banovina, the city was no longer a national capital and saw a decline in global influence.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/travel/europe/la-tr-d-sarajevo-timeline-20140727-story.html |title=Timeline: A short history of Sarajevo and region |work=Los Angeles Times |date=25 July 2014 |access-date=16 April 2020 |archive-date=4 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200604115511/https://www.latimes.com/travel/europe/la-tr-d-sarajevo-timeline-20140727-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

During [[World War II]], the Kingdom of Yugoslavia's army was overrun by German and Italian forces. Following a German bombing campaign, Sarajevo was captured on 15 April 1941 by the [[16th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)|16th Motorized Infantry Division]]. The [[Axis powers]] created the [[Independent State of Croatia]] and included Sarajevo in its territory.

Immediately following the occupation, the main Sephardi Jewish synagogue, [[Il Kal Grande]], was looted, burned, and destroyed by the [[Nazism|Nazis]]. Within a matter of months, the centuries-old Sephardi and Ashkenazi Jewish communities of Sarajevo, comprising the vast majority of [[History of the Jews in Bosnia and Herzegovina|Bosnian Jewry]], would be rounded up in the Old Synagogue (Stari hram) and deported to their deaths in [[Concentration camps in the Independent State of Croatia|Croatian concentration camps]]. Roughly 85% of Bosnia's Jewish population would perish at the hands of the Nazis and the [[Ustaše]] [[The Holocaust in the Independent State of Croatia|during the Holocaust in the region]]. The [[Sarajevo Haggadah]] was the most important artifact which survived this period, smuggled out of Sarajevo and saved from the Nazis and Ustaše by the chief librarian of the National Museum, [[Derviš Korkut]].

[[File:Sarajevo Vraca Spomen Park 4.jpg|thumb|left|175px|[[Vraca Memorial Park]] is a park dedicated to World War II victims in the city]]

On 12 October 1941, a group of 108 notable [[Bosniaks|Bosniak]] citizens of Sarajevo signed the [[Resolution of Sarajevo Muslims]] by which they condemned the [[Genocide of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia|Genocide of Serbs]] organized by the Ustaše, made a distinction between the Bosniaks who participated in such persecutions and the rest of the Bosniak population, presented information about the persecutions of Bosniaks by the [[Ustaše]], and requested security for all citizens of the country, regardless of their identity.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hadžijahić |first=Muhamed |title=Istorija Naroda Bosne i Hercegovine |year=1973 |publisher=Institut za istoriju radničkog pokreta |location=Sarajevo |language=sh |page=277 |chapter=Muslimanske rezolucije iz 1941 godine [Muslim resolutions of 1941] |chapter-url=https://www.scribd.com/doc/47323922/Muhamed-Hadzijahic-Muslimanske-rezolucije-1941 |access-date=11 September 2017 |archive-date=6 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306083030/https://www.scribd.com/doc/47323922/Muhamed-Hadzijahic-Muslimanske-rezolucije-1941 |url-status=live }}</ref> During the summer of 1941, Ustaše militia periodically interned and executed groups of [[Serbs in Sarajevo|Sarajevo Serbs]].<ref name=Balić>{{cite journal |last=Balić |first=Emily Greble |title=When Croatia Needes Serbs: Nationalism and Genocide in Sarajevo, 1941-1942 |journal=Slavic Review |volume=68 |issue=1 |pages=116–138 |year=2009 |doi=10.2307/20453271 |jstor=20453271|doi-access=free }}</ref> In August 1941, they arrested about one hundred Serbs suspected of ties to the resistance armies, mostly church officials and members of the intelligentsia, and executed them or deported them to concentration camps.<ref name=Balić /> By mid-summer 1942, around 20,000 Serbs found refuge in Sarajevo from Ustaše terror.{{sfn|Gumz|1998|p=}}

The city was bombed by the [[Allies of World War II|Allies]] from 1943 to 1944.<ref>Robert J. Donia, ''Sarajevo: a biography''. [[University of Michigan]] Press, 2006. (p. 197)</ref> The [[Yugoslav Partisans|Yugoslav Partisan]] movement was represented in the city. In the period February–May 1945, [[Vjekoslav Luburić|Maks Luburić]] set up a Ustaše headquarters in a building known as [[Villa Luburić]] and used it as a torture and execution place whose 323 victims were identified after the war. The resistance was led by [[Vladimir Perić|Vladimir Perić Valter]], who died while leading the liberation of the city on 6 April 1945.

[[File:Sarajevo Novo Sarajevo.jpg|thumb|View west toward parts of [[Novo Sarajevo]]]]

After the war, Sarajevo was the capital of the [[Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina]] within the [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]]. The Republic Government invested heavily in Sarajevo, building many new residential blocks in the municipalities of [[Novi Grad, Sarajevo|Novi Grad]] and [[Novo Sarajevo]], while simultaneously developing the city's industry and transforming Sarajevo into a modern city. Sarajevo grew rapidly as it became an important regional industrial center in Yugoslavia. Between the end of the war and the end of Yugoslavia, the city grew from a population of 115,000 to more than 600,000 people. The [[Vraca Memorial Park]], a monument for victims of World War II, was dedicated on 25 November, the "[[Statehood Day (Bosnia and Herzegovina)|Statehood Day of Bosnia and Herzegovina]]" when the [[State Anti-fascist Council for the National Liberation of Bosnia and Herzegovina|ZAVNOBIH]] held their first meeting in 1943.<ref name=Donia>{{cite book |last=Donia |first=Robert J. |title=Sarajevo: A Biography |year=2006 |publisher=University of Michigan Press |isbn=978-0-472-11557-0 |pages=240–241}}</ref>

A crowning moment of Sarajevo's time in Socialist Yugoslavia was the [[1984 Winter Olympics]]. Sarajevo beat out [[Sapporo]], Japan, and [[Falun]]/[[Gothenburg]], Sweden, to host the [[Olympic Games]]. The games were followed by a tourism boom, making the 1980s one of the city's most prosperous decades.<ref>Sachs, Stephen E. (1994). [http://www.stevesachs.com/papers/paper_sarajevo.html Sarajevo: A Crossroads in History.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080308212547/http://www.stevesachs.com/papers/paper_sarajevo.html |date=8 March 2008 }} Retrieved on 3 August 2006.</ref>