Eta N. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Eta N., who grew up in Slavonski Brod, Yugoslavia in an affluent family. She recalls medical studies in Zagreb; expulsion in 1941, with only two exams to complete, when the Ustas?a came to power; marriage; returning home; her daughter's birth; round-ups of Jews including her brother, father (they were killed), and mother; a Croat and a Jewish doctor organizing a physicians group to eliminate syphilis in Bosnia; she and her husband volunteering which protected their immediate families; obtaining her mother's release; a Muslim man bringing her to them in Tuzla; a brutal round-up of local Jews; clandestine contacts with partisans; warnings to leave; moving to Bosanska Krupa; learning many of their colleagues were killed by Chetniks; a retaliatory mass killing in a nearby village after a resistance action; spying for the partisans; a Muslim warning them to leave; her husband leaving to ascertain conditions in another village; her mother's and daughter's deaths in a bombing; leaving for the other village; joining the partisans; her son's birth en route to their assignment; her husband's service in mobile partisan hospitals; her service in a hospital in Sokolovo; and entering Zagreb with the partisans in May 1945. Dr. N. pays homage to her medical colleagues in the partisans.
Extent and Medium
4 videocassettes
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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
- N., Eta.
Corporate Bodies
- UstasĚa, hrvatska revolucionarna organizacija.
Subjects
- Mass killings.
- Partisans.
- Chetnik movement.
- Children -- Death.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Yugoslavia.
- Husband and wife.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Holocaust survivors.
Places
- Sokolovo Donje (Bosnia and Hercegovina)
- Sokolovo Gornje (Bosnia and Hercegovina)
- Bosanska Krupa (Bosnia and Hercegovina)
- Tuzla (Bosnia and Hercegovina)
- Zagreb (Croatia)
- Slavonski Brod (Croatia)
- Yugoslavia.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat