Jelica S. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 3752
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Jelica S., who was born in Zagreb in 1916 to an assimilated family. She recalls her father's death; her sister's chronic illness; attending gymnasium; marriage to a non-Jewish Serb in 1936; attending university in Belgrade; her husband preventing her from registering as a Jew; returning to Zagreb; Jewish persecution by the Ustaša government; having to register as a Jew and wear the star; traveling to Belgrade using a government document; her husband sending her to relatives in Subjel; wonderful treatment by his family and local peasants (they all knew she was Jewish); Chetnik collaboration with the Germans; arrest and interrogation (she averted torture by an antisemitic commander because he had left earlier); assistance from one officer who believed that she was not a partisan; returning to Subjel; escaping because she knew arrest was imminent; living in Belgrade as the registered Jewish wife of a Serb (there were almost no Jews left there); divorce in 1946; and remarriage years later. Ms. S. discusses never feeling Jewish until being persecuted; her brother's, sister's, and mother's experiences; and believing the dissolution of Yugoslavia is a tragedy.

Extent and Medium

1 videocassette

Conditions Governing Access

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

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