From: stojanov@husc11.harvard.edu (Milan Stojanovic)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.yugoslavia,soc.culture.jewish,soc.culture.croatia
Subject: Re: Yale sources for Serbian Holocaust studies
Keywords: serbia--Holocaust--antisemitism--WWII
Date: 11 Jan 93 14:55:40 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc3.1993Jan11.095541.19185
Distribution: world
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

Please read carefully this posting and convince yourself how far are some 
Croats ready to go in their revision of history.  Please, read 
carefully the posting from person who is a professor of University, 
but lacks elementary honesty, who is so blinded by hatred that he
is forced to lie.  Especially pay attention how his text has nothing
to do with what he posted as documents about persecution of Jews.
Backa Topola was not in Serbia during WWII, and person was 
persecuted by Hungarians.  "Concentration camp in Leskovac" was 
even not mentioned in text. Instead the "brief imprisonment in Leskovac"
was mentioned, after which person was released to go to USA. 
Please read carefully!  About Gestapo killing people for they were 
hiding Jews! And "the attitude of onlooking Croatians" while Hungarians
were killing Jews and Communists ( i.e. Serbs resisting). 

Milan N. Stojanovic

In article <1iock9INN38h@GOLEM.MATH.YALE.EDU> wickerhauser-victor@math.yale.edu (Victor Wickerhauser) writes:
>Relatively few sources are available concerning the Holocaust in
>Serbia during WWII --- in particular, none published in Belgrade that
>I am aware of --- but there are a few sources by people who escaped
>from Yugoslavia.  Those which I found during a brief search of the
>Stirling Library online public card catalog at Yale University are
>listed below.  They include a recent book "Fateful months : essays on
>the emergence of the final solution" by Christopher R. Browning
>(Holmes & Meier, New York, 1985), and 4 videotaped holocaust histories
>(from the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale
>University Library) by individuals who managed to escape death in WWII
>Serbia.  They mention two Serbian concentration camps, Backa Topola
>and Leskovac.  The card catalog entries include summaries of the
>videotapes, so I am posting them in their entirety below.
>
>Yale's online catalog shows the rather interesting activity of the
>Serbian Ministry of Information (in Belgrade) during 1991--92, when it
>published nearly a dozen books on the Holocaust in the Nazi quisling
>"Independent State of Croatia" (1941-45) without a single book on the
>nearly identical Holocaust in Nazi quisling Serbia.  Anyone who doubts
>that "those who forget history are doomed to repeat it" need only read
>in the newspapers what today's Serbs are doing to the people of
>Bosnia-Hercegovina.
>
>Regards,
>Victor
>------------------------- Begin included file -----------------------
>
> Author:         Browning, Christopher R.
> Title:          Fateful months : essays on the emergence of the final solution
>                   / Christopher R. Browning.
> Published:      New York : Holmes & Meier, 1985.
> Description:    ix, 111 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. 
> Notes:          Includes bibliographical references and index.
> Subjects (Library of Congress):
>                 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Yugoslavia--Serbia.
>                 Jews--Yugoslavia--Serbia--Persecutions.
>                 Serbia--Ethnic relations. 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>    LOCATION:              CALL NUMBER:               STATUS:
>  1. SML, Stacks, LC        DS135 Y82 S493 1985        Not checked out
>       Classification
>
>
> Author:         S., Frances, 1910-
> Title:          Frances S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-600) [videotape]
>                   interviewed by Ruth Hart and Barbara Katz, July 18, 1985.
> Published:      New Haven, Conn. : Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at
>                   Yale, 1985.
> Quantity:       1 videorecording (1 hr., 30 min.)  : col.   
> Summary:        Videotape testimony of Frances S., who was born in Horoch ow,
>                   Poland in 1910.  She describes her prewar family and
>                   religious life; her marriage in Yugoslavia in 1938; her
>                   studies at the University of Belgrade; and her arrest in
>                   1938 before her stay was legalized.  She recalls registering
>                   for emigration for fear of the Nazis; her flight, once she
>                   obtained her visa; her journey to Bombay via Greece, Iraq,
>                   and Karachi; and her forty-day trip to the United States,
>                   where she arrived in March 1941.  She tells of her life
> Summary:          here; her impressions of America's inertia with regard to
>                   receiving immigrants; her grandchildrens' awareness of the 
>                   Holocaust; and the wartime deaths of her parents.
> Part of:        Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies.
> Notes:          3 copies: 3/4 in. master; 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with  
>                   time coding.
> Cite as:        Frances S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-600).  Fortunoff Video
>                   Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
> Subjects (Library of Congress):
>                 S., Frances, 1910-
>                 Video tapes.
>                 Women.
>                 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
>                 World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
>                 Jews--Migrations.
>                 Refugees, Jewish.
>                 Poland.
>                 Gorokhov (Ukraine)
>                 Belgrade (Serbia)
>                 Bombay (India)
>                 Oral histories.
> Subjects (Local Yale):
>                 Horoch ow (Poland)
> Also listed under:
>                 Hart, Ruth, interviewer.
>                 Katz, Barbara, interviewer.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>    LOCATION:              CALL NUMBER:               STATUS:
>  1. SML, Manuscripts and   MS 1322                    Check Shelf
>       Archives  
>     (Non-Circulating)
> 
>                 
> 
>                 
> Author:         S., Irving, 1907-
> Title:          Irving S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-596) [videotape]
>                   interviewed by Frances Cohen and Lucille B. Ritvo, July 18,
>                   1985.
> Published:      New Haven, Conn. : Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at
>                   Yale, 1985.
> Quantity:       1 videorecording (2 hr., 23 min.) : col.
> Summary:        Videotape testimony of Irving S., who was born in Surawno,
>                   Austria (now U.S.S.R.) in 1907.  He recounts attending
>                   cheder; his father's Austrian patriotism; fleeing to the
>                   Carpathians, Vienna, and Teplice during World War I;
>                   returning home where everything had been destroyed;
>                   attending school under Ukrainian, Polish, and Soviet
>                   auspices as governments changed; and his brother's return
>                   from Austrian Army service, having lost a leg.  Mr. S. tells
> Summary:          of living with his aunt in Teplice; activities in Zionist  
>                   groups; returning home; graduation from university and law
>                   school in Krak ow; legal clerkship and practice in Lw ow;  
>                   moving to Belgrade in 1939 for employment in his uncle's
>                   business; marriage in 1938; he and his wife obtaining U.S.
>                   visas; brief imprisonment in Leskovac; efforts to obtain
>                   transit visas from Greece, Turkey, and Iraq; incidents in
>                   the journey with his wife and aunt; ship travel from Basra
>                   to Karachi to Bombay; and arrival in the United States in
>                   1941.  He describes adjustment difficulties; the bi
> Part of:        Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies.
> Notes:          3 copies: 3/4 in. master; 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with
>                   time coding.
> Notes:          Associated material: Frances S. Holocaust testimony [wife]   
>                   (HVT-600), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust
>                   Testimonies, Yale University Library.
> Cite as:        Irving S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-596).  Fortunoff Video 
>                   Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
> Subjects (Library of Congress):
>                 S., Irving, 1907-
>                 Video tapes.
>                 Men. 
>                 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.  
>                 World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
>                 Jews--Migrations. 
>                 Refugees, Jewish.
>                 Husband and wife.
>                 Austria.
>                 Zhuravno (Ukraine)
>                 Stry i (Ukraine)
>                 Teplice (Czechoslovakia)
>                 Krak ow (Poland) 
>                 L vov (Ukraine)
>                 Belgrade (Serbia)
>                 Leskovac (Leskovac, Serbia)
>                 Oral histories.
> Subjects (Local Yale):
>                 Zionist organizations.
>                 Lw ow (Poland)   
> Also listed under:
>                 Cohen, Frances, interviewer.
>                 Ritvo, Lucille B., interviewer.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>    LOCATION:              CALL NUMBER:               STATUS:
>  1. SML, Manuscripts and   MS 1322                    Check Shelf
>       Archives  
>     (Non-Circulating)
>                 
>
> Author:         M., Lepa, 1914-
> Title:          Lepa M. Holocaust testimony (HVT-193) [videotape] interviewed
>                   by Laurel Vlock and Harvey Ruben, December 16, 1982.
> Published:      New Haven, Conn. : Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at
>                   Yale, 1982.
> Quantity:       1 videorecording (1 hr., 53 min.) : col.
> Summary:        Videotape testimony of Lepa M., a non-Jew who was born in
>                   Belgrade, Yugoslavia, in 1914.  She describes the political 
>                   atmosphere and situation of the Jews in Belgrade before the
>                   war; her marriage in 1935; the German invasion of Yugoslavia
>                   in 1941; and the anti-Jewish legislation and mass
>                   deportations which followed.  She relates that in 1943 she
>                   and her husband hid three Jews in the basement of their
>                   house in Prokuplje, and that several months later the three
>                   were discovered, and, along with Mrs. M.'s husband, were
> Summary:          taken away and shot by the Gestapo in the town of Ni s.
>                   Mrs. M. speaks of her life in Belgrade after the war and of
>                   the circumstances of the Jews there, and she tells of moving
>                   to England and then to the United States.  Throughout the
>                   testimony she returns to a description of events surrounding
>                   her husband's arrest, and discusses her feelings and
>                   observations regarding the plight of the Jews during and   
>                   after the Holocaust. 
> Part of:        Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. 
> Notes:          3 copies: 3/4 in. master; 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with 
>                   time coding.
> Cite as:        Lepa M. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-193).  Fortunoff Video 
>                   Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
> Subjects (Library of Congress):
>                 M., Lepa, 1914-
>                 Video tapes.
>                 Women.
>                 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
>                 World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Yugoslav.  
>                 World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue. 
>                 Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust.
>                 Yugoslavia.
>                 Belgrade (Serbia) 
>                 Prokuplje (Serbia)
>                 Ni s (Serbia)
>                 Oral histories.
> Subjects (Local Yale):
>                 Rescuers. 
>                 Husband--Death.
> Also listed under:
>                 Vlock, Laurel, interviewer.
>                 Ruben, Harvey, interviewer.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>    LOCATION:              CALL NUMBER:               STATUS:
>  1. SML, Manuscripts and   MS 1322                    Check Shelf
>       Archives  
>     (Non-Circulating)
>                 
>
> Author:         R., Martin, 1925-
> Title:          Martin R. Holocaust testimony (HVT-166) [videotape]
>                   interviewed by Dori Laub and Ron Taffel, October 30, 1982.
> Published:      New York, N.Y. : Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at
>                   Yale, 1982.
> Quantity:       1 videorecording (1 hr., 45 min.) : col.
> Summary:        Videotape testimony of Martin R., who was born in Novi Sad,
>                   Yugoslavia, in 1920.  He recounts his prewar childhood; the
>                   Yugoslavian resistance to Hungarian occupation; his mother's
>                   decision to take her children to Baja, Hungary; the mass
>                   drowning of Communists and Jews of Novi Sad, including his
>                   father; and the attitude of onlooking Croatians.  He tells
>                   of his brothers' conscription as slave soldiers on the
>                   Russian front; the forced removal of his family by Hungarian
>                   soldiers, while Hungarian civilians looked on in approval;
> Summary:          and the transport to Subotica, where he was separated from
>                   his family and taken to Backa Topola.  He describes the  
>                   train ride to Auschwitz and his arrival there; his transport
>                   to W ustegiersdorf, a labor camp in Silesia; and his work
>                   there.  He recalls his transport to Bergen-Belsen, then  
>                   Hildesheim as a slave laborer; return to Bergen-Belsen in  
>                   April 1945; and liberation there.  Mr. R. also speaks of his
>                   inability to erase memories and recurring dreams of 
>                   Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen.
> Part of:        Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies.  
> Finding aids:   Unpublished finding aid available in repository; 1/2 in. VHS
>                   is linked to finding aid by time coding. 
> Notes:          3 copies: 3/4 in. master; 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with 
> Notes:            time coding.
> Cite as:        Martin R. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-166).  Fortunoff Video  
>                   Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library. 
> Subjects (Library of Congress):
>                 R., Martin, 1925-
>                 Holocaust survivors.
>                 Video tapes.
>                 Men.
>                 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives
>                 World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.  
>                 World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. 
>                 World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Yugoslavia.
>                 Forced labor. 
> Subjects (Library of Congress):
>                 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Psychological aspects.
>                 Dreams.
>                 Yugoslavia.
>                 Novi Sad (Serbia)
>                 Baja (Hungary)
>                 Auschwitz (Poland : Concentration camp)
>                 Bergen-Belsen (Germany : Concentration camp)
>                 Oral histories.
> Subjects (Local Yale):
>                 Hungarian occupation.
>                 Subotica (Serbia : Concentration camp)
>                 Ba cka Topola (Serbia : Concentration camp)
>                 W ustegiersdorf (Poland : Concentration camp)
>                 Hildesheim (Germany : Concentration camp)
> Also listed under:
>                 Laub, Dori, interviewer.
>                 Taffel, Ron, interviewer.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>    LOCATION:              CALL NUMBER:               STATUS:
>  1. SML, Manuscripts and   MS 1322                    Check Shelf
>       Archives
>     (Non-Circulating)
>                 
>       
>
>                 
>                 
>                 
>                 
>
>-- 
>Prof. M. Victor Wickerhauser                      <victor@kirk.wustl.edu>
>Department of Mathematics, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130 USA
>Telephone:  USA(314)935-6771, USA(314)727-0749;     FAX: USA(314)727-4963
>Sto se ljuckim trudom uzdignulo, Ljuckim znojem jopet se ponavlja. --Medo Pucic