Boz?o S. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Boz?o S., who was born in approximately 1920. He recalls his arrest in Zagreb in spring 1941; slave labor in Danica; receiving food from the Zagreb Jewish community; transfer to Jadovno a few months later; being sent to Gospic? by a Ustas?a, a former schoolmate, with ten other prisoners (also former schoolmates) while everyone in Jadovno was being killed; their transfer to Jasenovac in August; volunteering as an electrician, a privileged job; being assigned to collect hundreds of corpses when nearby Krapje was liquidated; Ustas?a viciously killing those not already dead; transfer to Stara Gradis?ka; working in the Ustas?a kitchen, which provided access to extra food; sadistic killings of Serbian women and children; smuggling medicine to female Croation Communist prisoners; transfer to do agricultural work outside the camp; escaping with six Jews and a communist Croat in September 1942; joining the partisans; fighting with a unit on Kalnik Mountain; volunteering as the SKOJ commissar; liberating many areas, including Belgrade; and his subsequent military career (he is a colonel). Mr. S. notes indifference to ethnicity in the partisans, as long as one fought well, and the bravery of many Jewish partisans.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)
Conditions Governing Access
This testimony is open with permission.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive.
Rules and Conventions
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- S., Božo, -- 1920?-
Corporate Bodies
- Ustaša, hrvatska revolucionarna organizacija.
- Jadovno (Concentration camp)
- Stara Gradiška (Concentration camp)
- Jasenovac (Concentration camp)
- Savez komunističke omladine Jugoslavije.
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Men.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Partisans.
- Mutual aid.
- Postwar experiences.
- Escapes.
- Forced labor.
- Mass killings.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Yugoslavia.
Places
- Gospić (Croatia)
- Zagreb (Croatia)
- Danica (Croatia : Concentration camp)
- Kalnik Mountain (Croatia)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat