- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Silva U., who was born in Belgrade, Serbia, the younger of two children. She recalls her family's affluence; observing Jewish holidays with a large extended family (her mother had converted to Judaism); her father's military service; finishing third grade; German invasion in 1941; her father's return; obtaining false papers; traveling to Kuršumlija with her brother and parents; hiding with non-Jews; threatened exposure; moving to Podujevo; arrest; escape with assistance from a prison guard; smuggling themselves to Italian occupied Priština; expulsion; moving to Bulgarian occupied Prokuplje; a Bulgarian soldier warning them of an impending round-up; escaping to hide with a friend in Jugovac; doing farm work to support themselves; warnings from partisans when collaborationist Nedić Serbian government or German troops were coming; visiting an uncle in Niš; shopping in Prokuplje; imprisonment by Nedić troops as a partisan; transfer to German prisons, then to Leskovac; torture during interrogations; her mother's visits; a Serb physician saving her from deportation; release; returning to Jugovac; her brother's death as a partisan; their return to Belgrade after the war; and friends returning their possessions. Ms. U. notes her parents' continuing trauma due to her brother's death; marriage to a non-Jew; and continuing her education.
- Author/Creator
- U., Silva.
- Published
- Belgrade, Serbia : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1995
- Interview Date
- September 23 and 24, 1995.
- Locale
- Yugoslavia
Pristina (Kosovo)
Belgrade (Serbia)
Kuršumlija (Serbia)
Podujevo (Kosovo)
Prokuplje (Serbia)
Jugovac (Serbia)
Leskovac (Leskovac, Serbia)
Niš (Serbia)
- Cite As
- Silva U. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3509). 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.
