- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Ado K., who was born in Visoko, Yugoslavia in 1915. He recounts cordial relations between the small Jewish community and Muslims, Serbs, and Croats; serving in the Yugoslav army; creation of Croatia in 1941; his capture in Doboj; anti-Jewish regulations enforced by the Ustaša; deportations of Serbs and Jews; his deportation to Jasenovac in October 1941; forced labor in Lonjsko Polje; mass killings of prisoners; transfer to Gradiška in January 1942; observing the horrendous conditions of the women and children (his mother and sisters were there); sadistic public killing of prisoners by Tomislov Filipović (he was from Visoko); learning his family had been killed (he is the only camp survivor from Visoko); demoralization after his mother was killed; transfer back to Jasenovac in July 1943; his Jewish group leader who saved many prisoners; a public hanging of prisoners when their contacts outside the camp were discovered; escaping with two others from a work brigade outside the camp in September 1944; and joining the partisans in Prijedor. Mr. K. notes he retired from the military in 1966. He names many prisoners, partisans, and perpetrators and describes the organization of the camps.
- Author/Creator
- K., Ado, 1915-
- Published
- Belgrade, Serbia : Jewish Community in Belgrade, 1991
- Interview Date
- March 19, 1991.
- Locale
- Yugoslavia
Visoko (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Doboj (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Lonjsko Polje (Croatia)
Prijedor (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
- Cite As
- Ado K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2193). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Almuli, Jaša, interviewer.
- Notes
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This testimony is in Serbo-Croatian.
Associated material: Misa D. Holocaust testimony [colleague] (HVT-2211), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.