Marko A. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Marko A., who was born in Poz?arevac, Yugoslavia in 1909. He recalls cordial relations with Serbs; moving to Belgrade in 1928; becoming a physician; marriage to a Serb; German invasion in 1941; Aleksandar Rankovic?, a communist official, warning him to flee; traveling to Durmitor, then Bijelo Polje; returning to Belgrade after a month; hiding in his mother's attic; his wife and her sister openly living there; hiding supplies for Blagoje Nes?kovic?, a communist official; acquiring false papers; the police receiving information about the hideout; their futile search; his wife's arrest and torture; hiding partisans and politicians, including Milovan Djilas, Ivan Ribar, Spasenija-Cana Babovic?, and Ljubinka Milosavljevic?; reluctantly joining the Communist Party; his brother's death as a partisan in battle in October 1941; his sister-in-law providing food; leaving and returning to the hiding place with his mother several times; arrest of his wife and sister-in-law in April 1943; his wife's beating; leaving the hiding place in August 1944; hiding from the Chetniks who were killing communists; liberation; working as a physician with a battalion in Belgrade; and membership on a committee investigating war crimes and collaborators. He shows photographs.
Extent and Medium
6 videocassettes
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
- Ribar, Ivan.
- Nešković, Blagoje, -- 1907-1984.
- Milosavljević, Ljubinka.
- A., Marko, -- 1909-
- Ranković, Aleksandar, -- 1909-1983.
- Djilas, Milovan, -- 1911-1995.
- Babović, Spasenija Cana, -- 1907-1977.
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors.
- Postwar experiences.
- Mutual aid.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Partisans.
- Communism -- Yugoslavia -- History.
- Husband and wife.
- False papers.
- Hiding.
- Escapes.
- Interfaith marriage.
- Mothers and sons.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Yugoslavia.
- Men.
- Video tapes.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
Places
- Požarevac (Serbia)
- Belgrade (Serbia)
- Durmitor (Montenegro)
- Bijelo Polje, Montenegro.
- Serbia.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat