Aleksandar D. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Aleksander D., an only child, who was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1923. He recalls his mother's death; his large, extended family; his father's positions as vice-president of the Belgrade Sephardic community and member of the city council (he was an attorney); German invasion in April 1941; he and his father traveling to Kotor, then Cetinje, thinking it safer under Italian occupation; assistance from his father's colleagues; his father's arrest on June 22; his release with assistance from a retired Yugoslav army officer; traveling to Budva; joining the Montenegro uprising against Italy; arrest; his father convincing the Italians to release them; obtaining a travel document for Bar; altering it to authorize their travel to Split; arrest; imprisonment in Cetinje; his father's death sentence; daily food deliveries from anti-fascists; his father's Italian colleague arranging his release (it was too late for his father) after two months; traveling to Split; staying with relatives; arrest in December; transfer to Koper, then Saint Vincent for "free confinement"; transfer in February 1943 to Ferramonti; educational, social, and religious activities; liberation by British troops in September; joining a partisan brigade in Bari; and fighting in Korc?ula and Drvar. Mr. D. discusses the loss of almost his entire extended family during the Holocaust; his diplomatic career; and chairing the memorial committee of the Belgrade Jewish community.
Extent and Medium
3 videocassettes
Conditions Governing Access
This testimony is open with permission.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive.
Rules and Conventions
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- D., Aleksandar, -- 1923-
Corporate Bodies
- Ferramonti (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- False papers.
- Partisans.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Italian occupation.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Yugoslav.
- Concentration camps -- Sociological aspects.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Italian.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Serbia and Montenegro.
- Refugees, Jewish.
- Jews -- Migrations.
- Fathers and sons.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Men.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Postwar experiences.
Places
- KorcĚula (Croatia)
- Drvar (Bosnia and Hercegovina)
- Split (Croatia)
- Koper (Slovenia)
- Saint-Vincent (Italy)
- Bari (Italy)
- Kotor (Montenegro)
- Cetinje (Montenegro)
- Budva (Montenegro)
- Bar (Montenegro)
- Yugoslavia.
- Belgrade (Serbia)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat