Tirca G. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Tirca G., who was born in Zagreb, Croatia. She describes her father's apothecary in Gradac?ac; attending school in Gradac?ac, then Osijek; returning to Gradac?ac in 1941; being ruled by newly formed Croatia, a German ally; anti-Jewish restrictions enforced by Ustas?a; hearing of a massacre of Jews; fleeing with help from a Muslim family; hiding in Tolisa, with help from a priest, until 1943; returning to Gradac?ac; joining the partisans; her partisan wedding; working as a partisan nurse in Sekovice and Bijeljina; denunciation with her mother as partisans by Chetniks; assuming a non-Jewish name; imprisonment in Bijeljina and Brcko; separation and killing of the Jews, including her mother; transfer to Osijek, then as a non-Jewish slave laborer to a munitions factory in Germany in 1944; liberation by Soviet troops in 1945; reunion with her husband; traveling with him to Subotica; and a nervous breakdown after learning no one from her family had survived. Mrs. G. relates returning to Gradac?ac; learning her father survived as a partisan; and her postwar life.

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