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Oral history interview with Smilja I. Tišma

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2007.504.1.32 | RG Number: RG-50.585.0032

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    Oral history interview with Smilja I. Tišma

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Smilja I. Tišma, born in 1932 in Zrinjska village in the former Yugoslavia, describes the beginning of the war; her father's arrest by the Ustaše in 1941 and his presumed death; the arrest of her family and their time in concentration camps in Veliki Grdjevac and Bjelovar; returning home and then being arrested by the Ustaše and deported to the Jasenovac concentration camp; her transfer to Stara Gradiska and then Sisak concentration camp; conditions in the concentration camps; the death of her mother; her transfer to Jastrebarsko; writing to her grandmother; her neighbor coming to Jastrebarsko to retrieve her and her siblings in 1943; staying with her grandmother for the remainder of the war; and fleeing to the forest during battles.
    Interviewee
    Smilja I. Tišma
    Date
    interview:  2008 March 06
    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
    Tišma, Smilja I.

    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 09:04:29
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