- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Livija A., who was born in Subotica, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1917 to a Jewish father and Catholic mother. She recounts being raised as a Catholic; celebrating Passover with her father's family in Budapest; her father changing his name to an obviously Serb one; attending architecture school beginning in 1936; expulsion as a Jew in 1941; her parents' eviction; living in Belgrade; working for a man who knew she was Jewish; her father's employment by friends; his death in an accident; hiding Jewish friends of her parents (one committed suicide when they were caught, one was killed, and one survived); their arrest; release due to influential friends; her mother immediately traveling to Zagreb to live with her sister, who was married to a Serb; marriage by an Orthodox priest, after she converted, to a Jewish man living on false papers as a Serb; fleeing when her husband's room was searched by police; liberation; her conversion to Judaism; active participation in the Jewish community; emigration to Israel; and returning in 1956. Ms. A. discusses her sons' marriages to non-Jews; one son's alienation from them and identity as a non-Jew (he lives in Israel); and her other son's strong Jewish identity.
- Author/Creator
- A., Livija, 1917-
- Published
- Belgrade, Serbia : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1997
- Interview Date
- October 16, 1997.
- Locale
- Subotica (Subotica, Serbia)
Austria
Budapest (Hungary)
Belgrade (Serbia)
Israel
- Cite As
- Livija A. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3757). 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.
