Tirca G. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Tirca G., who was born in Zagreb, Croatia. She describes her father's apothecary in Gradac?ac; attending school in Gradac?ac, then Osijek; returning to Gradac?ac in 1941; being ruled by newly formed Croatia, a German ally; anti-Jewish restrictions enforced by Ustas?a; hearing of a massacre of Jews; fleeing with help from a Muslim family; hiding in Tolisa, with help from a priest, until 1943; returning to Gradac?ac; joining the partisans; her partisan wedding; working as a partisan nurse in Sekovice and Bijeljina; denunciation with her mother as partisans by Chetniks; assuming a non-Jewish name; imprisonment in Bijeljina and Brcko; separation and killing of the Jews, including her mother; transfer to Osijek, then as a non-Jewish slave laborer to a munitions factory in Germany in 1944; liberation by Soviet troops in 1945; reunion with her husband; traveling with him to Subotica; and a nervous breakdown after learning no one from her family had survived. Mrs. G. relates returning to Gradac?ac; learning her father survived as a partisan; and her postwar life.
Extent and Medium
3 videocassettes
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This testimony is open with permission.
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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
- G., Tirca.
Corporate Bodies
- UstasĚa, hrvatska revolucionarna organizacija.
Subjects
- Prisons -- Bosnia and Hercegovina -- Brcko.
- Partisans.
- Hiding.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Postwar experiences.
- Postwar effects.
- Mothers and daughters.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Yugoslavia.
- Forced labor.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Collaborationists -- Yugoslavia.
- Family.
- Prisons -- Bosnia and Hercegovina -- Bijeljna.
- Sisters.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
Places
- Croatia (Republic : 1941-1945)
- Zagreb (Croatia)
- GradacĚac (Bosnia and Hercegovina)
- Osijek (Croatia)
- Bijeljna (Bosnia and Hercegovina)
- Germany.
- Subotica (Subotica, Serbia)
- Tolisa (Bosnia and Hercegovina)
- Sekovice (Bosnia and Hercegovina)
- Croatia.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat