Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Tirca G., who was born in Zagreb, Croatia. She describes her father's apothecary in Gradačac; attending school in Gradačac, then Osijek; returning to Gradačac in 1941; being ruled by newly formed Croatia, a German ally; anti-Jewish restrictions enforced by Ustaša; hearing of a massacre of Jews; fleeing with help from a Muslim family; hiding in Tolisa, with help from a priest, until 1943; returning to Gradačac; joining the partisans; her partisan wedding; working as a partisan nurse in Sekovice and Bijeljina; denunciation with her mother as partisans by Chetniks; assuming a non-Jewish name; imprisonment in Bijeljina and Brcko; separation and killing of the Jews, including her mother; transfer to Osijek, then as a non-Jewish slave laborer to a munitions factory in Germany in 1944; liberation by Soviet troops in 1945; reunion with her husband; traveling with him to Subotica; and a nervous breakdown after learning no one from her family had survived. Mrs. G. relates returning to Gradačac; learning her father survived as a partisan; and her postwar life.
- Published
- Belgrade, Serbia : Jewish Community in Belgrade, 1991
- Interview Date
- April 11, 1991.
- Locale
- Yugoslavia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bijeljina
Brčko
Croatia
Zagreb (Croatia)
Gradačac (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Osijek (Croatia)
Bijeljna (Bosnia and Hercegovina)
Germany
Subotica (Subotica, Serbia)
Tolisa (Bosnia and Hercegovina)
Sekovice (Bosnia and Hercegovina) - Cite As
- Tirca G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2197). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Notes
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This testimony is in Serbo-Croatian.
Physical Details
- Copies
- 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (52 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Partisans.
Hiding.
Aid by non-Jews.
Postwar experiences.
Postwar effects. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Mothers and daughters. Forced labor. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Yugoslavia. Families. World War, 1939-1945--Collaborationists--Yugoslavia. Sisters. Prisons--Bosnia and Herzegovina--Bijeljina. Prisons--Bosnia and Herzegovina--Brčko. Croatia. Zagreb (Croatia) Gradačac (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Osijek (Croatia) Bijeljna (Bosnia and Hercegovina) Germany. Subotica (Subotica, Serbia) Tolisa (Bosnia and Hercegovina) Sekovice (Bosnia and Hercegovina) Oral histories (document genres) G., Tirca. Ustaša, hrvatska revolucionarna organizacija.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Special Collection
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1100267
- Record last modified:
- 2018-06-04 13:27:00
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- http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt1100267
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