Oral history interview with Desanka Bižić
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette (DVCAM), sound, color ; 1/4 in.
Biographical History
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.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation
Funding Note: The production of this interview was made possible by Jeff and Toby Herr.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
People
- Desanka Bižić
- Bižić, Desanka.
Corporate Bodies
- Ustasha, Croatian revolutionary organization
- Cerovljani (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- State sponsored terrorism.
- Međeđa (Bosnia and Hercegovina)
- Serbs.
- Massacre survivors--Yugoslavia.
- Massacres--Yugoslavia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Yugoslavia.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Sava River.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Yugoslav.
- Yugoslavia--History--Axis occupation, 1941-1945.
- Escapes.
- Mlinarice (Bosnia and Hercegovina)
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Yugoslavia.
- Rape as a weapon of war.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Yugoslavia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Yugoslav.
- Bosnia and Hercegovina.
- Jasenovac (Croatia)
- Mass murder--Yugoslavia.
Genre
- Oral History
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