Sida S. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Sida S., who was born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia in 1921. She recalls her family's move to Belgrade in 1934; involvement in Hashomer Hatzair; attending medical school; German invasion; hiding with her sister's non-Jewish friends; traveling to Tuzla with her boyfriend and brother to escape Ustaša killings; doing forced labor in her mother's place; sending photos of her parents to a relative in Mostar to obtain false papers; her father's and brother's arrest by Ustaša; receiving the false papers and a Muslim disguise; escaping with her mother to Italian-occupied Mostar; joining the partisans after the Italians left; traveling to Kaštel Lukšić with her mother, avoiding Chetniks and Ustaša; learning her brother had escaped from Jasenovac (her father and twelve other relatives were killed); partisan assignments in many places including Livno and Split; recovering from typhus in winter 1943; reunion with her mother, sister, and brother in Belgrade after liberation; completing medical school; and serving in the air force. Dr. S. discusses joining the partisans for idealistic reasons; operating partisan medical units under unbearable conditions; and dismay over the present political situation and lack of honor for the partisans. She shows photographs.

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