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Oral history interview with Mara Katić

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2007.504.1.4 | RG Number: RG-50.585.0004

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    Oral history interview with Mara Katić

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Mara Katić, born in 1922 in Malikovac, Yugoslavia, describes prewar life in her hometown; watching films about Hitler in the village school; the beginning of the war; a Ustaše member confiscating her house and forcing her family to leave; her husband joining a partisan unit; the deportation of local Jews and Roma; a roundup of local Serbs by the Ustaše; the massacre of Serbs committed by the Ustaše; deportation and transfers between different concentration camps, including Gradiska, Jasenovac, and Sisak; the conditions of the camps; rumors of young beautiful girls being taken to Germany to be used as forced surrogate mothers; the exchange of her for a German officer by the Partisans; multiple arrests by the Ustaše because of her role distributing partisan propaganda; and the killing of a Ustaše member by her husband.
    Interviewee
    Mara Katić
    Date
    interview:  2006 July 29
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

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

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Katić, Mara.

    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.
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 09:04:18
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