LEADER 07221cpd a2200793 a 4500001 4297409 005 20180604132318.0 008 980731s1992 ctu eng d 035 4297409 035 HVT-3315 035 |9FLX1700YL 040 CtY |beng |cCtY |eappm 079 (OCoLC)1005126569 090 |bHVT-3315 100 1 O., Francis, |d1913- 245 10 Francis O. and Ilia O. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3315) |h[videorecording] / |cinterviewed by Jenny Loebel, |fMarch 1, 1992. 260 Tel Aviv, Israel : |bFortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |c1992. 300 1 videorecording (8 hr.,16 min.) : |bcol. 520 Videotape testimony of Francis O., who was born in Novi Sad, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Serbia) in 1913, and his wife Ilia O., who was born in Kisač, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Serbia) in 1915. Mr. O. recounts his mother's death in 1915; his father's draft into the Austrian military in World War I; living in a Serbian village with his grandparents, the only Jews there; singing in the church choir; returning to Novi Sad in 1918; living with his aunt; learning that he was Jewish; attending a Jewish school; his father's two remarriages; the births of two half-sisters; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; starting university in Zagreb in 1931; exposure to many Zionist factions; meeting his future wife; joining Betar; his father's death; his position with a law firm in Novi Sad; assisting Jewish refugees to emigrate to Palestine; serving as an officer in the Yugoslav military reserves; traveling to Belgrade and Kladovo to assist Jewish refugees leave Šabac; German invasion in 1941; Hungarian occupation; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in spring 1941, building roads and cleaning sewers; obtaining documents to move with his wife to Budapest in September; living with an aunt; learning of the massacre in Novi Sad; meeting Joel Brand once; obtaining false papers as non-Jews; traveling to Istanbul via Bucharest and Babaeski in spring 1942; establishing relations with a Yugoslav woman, Allied representatives, and the Jewish Agency; providing intelligence to them; working for the United States Office of War Information; developing a network with Teddy Kollek, Isaac Berman, Ehud Avriel, and others to transmit intelligence and support rescue operations; obtaining visas for Jews in Budapest; contact with the local cardinal, the future Pope, John XXIII; and sending Allied propaganda to German-occupied countries. Mr. O. details many events and people with whom he was involved, during and after the war, and shows photographs and documents. 520 8 Ilia O. recalls attending the Jewish school in Novi Sad; her interest in music, through which she met her future husband; attending university in Vienna; hearing a lecture by Vladimir Jabotinsky; antisemitic harassment; returning home; taking food and clothing to Jewish refugees in Šabac; the Gestapo coming for her husband when he was in a slave labor battalion; their flight to Budapest; her sister and brother-in-law joining them; giving piano lessons; traveling to Istanbul in June 1942; working with a former Yugoslav woman to send mail and packages to hundreds of Jews in occupied countries; bringing her parents, sister, sister's husband, and friends to Istanbul through contacts with Turkish officials; and sending visas and aid to Yugoslav Jews. 524 Francis O. and Ilia O. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3315). 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