Cadik-Braca D. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Cadik-Braca D., who was born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia in 1923. He recounts moving to Belgrade in 1934; German invasion in 1941; living with an uncle in Tuzla with his parents and sister; the Ustas?a anti-Jewish laws; arrest with his father in February 1942 along with approximately 100 other men from Tuzla; transfer to Jasenovac; sadistic beatings and killings by the Ustas?a camp administration, particularly Tomislav Filipovic; his father's kitchen job providing them with extra food; witnessing a soldier killing an infant by smashing its head on the ground; volunteering with his father for transfer to Stara Gradis?ka; continuing to receive extra food from his father; constantly thinking of escaping; forced agricultural labor in villages (he never saw his father again); public execution of a captured escapee; contact with a Serb peasant who gave him food and told him about nearby partisans; escaping with seven others with help from local Serbs; joining the partisans; fighting in Slavonia; and being severely wounded. Mr. D. notes over 100 relatives were killed and that of the 100 men from Tuzla, he is the only survivor.

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