Misa D. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Misa D., who recalls cordial relations between ethnic groups before 1933; attending gymnasium in Sarajevo, university in Belgrade, and reserve officers' school in S?abac; creation of independent Croatia; returning to Sarajevo; arrest; transfer to Belgrade, then Kosovska Mitrovica; round-ups of Jews by the Ustas?a; returning to Sarajevo; hiding briefly; deportation to Kruscica (he never saw his family again); forced labor in Krapje; transfer to Jasenovac; forced labor, starvation, deportations, torture, and mass killings; preparation for a Red Cross visit including liquidation of weak prisoners initiated by Maks Luburic?; a Ustas?a attempt to build a crematorium which resulted in burning people alive; transfer as an engineer to Stara Gradis?ka; witnessing a mass killing of women; and escaping with his friends from a work detail in Bosanska Gradis?ka. Mr. D. recounts encountering Chetniks; joining the partisans in December 1942; and serving in the engineering unit of the First Proletarian Brigade. He details intergroup relations in the camps and the cruelty of the Ustas?a administrators including Tomislav Filipovic?.

5 videocassettes