Maksim S. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Maksim S., who was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1921. He recounts acceptance of Jews as Serbs; attending university; joining SKOJ (an illegal communist youth group) in 1937; fellow members including future war heroes and government officials, among them Vlada Aksentijevic? and Marko Nikezic?; German bombardment in April 1941; volunteering for the army with friends; refusal due to their youth; traveling to Uz?ice; encountering a friend from university, Slobodan Penezic?; their return to Belgrade; anti-Jewish restrictions; assistance from non-Jews in bread lines; communications work for the partisans; leaving in July when he became "completely illegal"; joining partisans at Kosmaj Mountain; cooperating with Chetniks; skirmishes against collaborationist forces; reassignment to the Rudnik Mountains in October; hostilities with Chetniks; retreating to Nova Varos?, encounters with Milovan Djilas, a Tito associate; assignment as a medic to the First Proletarian Brigade in Bosnia by Aleksandar Rankovic?, a communist leader, in February 1942; returning to Serbia after the war; learning his sister had survived in the partisans; receiving a partisan medal; and resuming his studies in Belgrade. Mr. S. discusses partisan battles; his father's execution; and the killing of many relatives by the Germans.

4 videocassettes