- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Shalom M., who was born in Žepče, Yugoslavia (presently Bosnia and Hercegovina). He recalls military draft in 1941; being wounded and taken prisoner; transport to Stalag III A; sabotaging the work they were forced to do; escaping on a cargo train to Yugoslavia in April 1942; returning home; learning the Jewish community had been deported, with the exception of his parents (they were protected by a non-Jew); arrest and torture by Ustaša, including former schoolmates; imprisonment in Travnik; transport to Jasenovac; slave labor; sadistic killings by Ustaša guards; a Jew arranging his assignment to a privileged position as a gravedigger; sharing extra food he found; reassignment to the stables, an even more privileged position; transfer to Stara Gradiška; executions by camp official Vjekoslav Luburic; another official, Tomaslav Filipovic, killing hundreds of Serbian children with a hammer; hiding during a mass killing; learning his mother was sick in the women's camp; a friend, who was a doctor, agreeing to give her a lethal injection to spare her suffering (rats were eating the sick alive); executions after their escape plan was betrayed; killing the betrayer; escaping in March 1943; joining partisans in the Kozara Mountains; many battles against Chetniks, Ustašas, and Germans in many locations; killing some for revenge; and liberating Belgrade. Mr. M. notes he is the only Jewish survivor of his town.
- Author/Creator
- M., Shalom.
- Published
- Belgrade, Serbia : Jewish Community in Belgrade, 1989
- Interview Date
- December 10, 1989.
- Locale
- Germany
Yugoslavia
Žepče (Žepče, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Slavonski Brod (Croatia)
Travnik (Travnik, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Kozara Mountains (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Belgrade (Serbia)
- Cite As
- Shalom M. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1306). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Almuli, Jaša, interviewer.
- Notes
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This testimony is in Serbian.
