Antifascists gathered on Saturday to mark the 81st anniversary of the WWII ‘Igman March’ that saved a Partisan unit.

The traditional march began with the laying of wreaths to honour the members of the 1st Proletarian Brigade.

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The breakthrough of the 1st Proletarian Brigade through the German siege was made on the night of 27th January 1942 over Igman, the mountain overlooking Sarajevo.

The brigade marched through deep snow as temperatures hit -30 Centigrade. The exhausted soldiers started to fall asleep while walking and began to hallucinate.

However, the unit managed to escape to the eastern town of Foca.

Like every year, anti-fascists from all over Bosnia and Herzegovina and the region came to celebrate the anniversary.

“I'm from Podgorica, I come here traditionally, there are a lot of us. We are proud that this year we can also honour our martyrs, and this march is one form of the anti-fascist struggle,” one of the participants told N1.