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Oral history interview with Svetozar Livada

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2007.504.3.19 | RG Number: RG-50.587.0019

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    Oral history interview with Svetozar Livada

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Svetozar Livada, born in 1928 in Slunj in the former Yugoslavia, describes massacres of Serbian civilians in 1941 by the Ustaša; the burning of his house by the Ustaša in 1941; the torture of a communist Croatian in his village; fleeing to the forest during Ustaša attacks; joining the Partisans; the death of his mother; the arrest of an Italian battalion by his partisan unit; the structure of the prisoner of war exchange; atrocities committed by the the Ustaša and German soldiers; crimes committed by partisans; his wounding in 1944 and transfer to Italy and then England; and the fate of his family members.
    Interviewee
    Svetozar Livada
    Date
    interview:  2008 November 20
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

    Language
    Serbo-Croatian
    Extent
    2 videocassettes (DVCAM) : sound, color ; 1/4 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Livada, Svetozar.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    This is a witness interview of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Perpetrators, Collaborators, and Witnesses: The Jeff and Toby Herr Testimony Initiative, a multi-year project to record the testimonies of non-Jewish witnesses to the Holocaust. The interview was directed and supervised by Nathan Beyrak.
    Funding Note
    The production of this interview was made possible by Jeff and Toby Herr.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 09:05:46
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