From: wickerhauser-victor@math.yale.edu (Victor Wickerhauser)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.yugoslavia,soc.culture.jewish,soc.culture.bosna-herzgvna
Subject: Yale sources for Serbian Holocaust studies
Followup-To: soc.culture.yugoslavia
Date: 10 Jan 1993 00:36:09 -0500
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Summary: Never forget the Holocaust in Serbia
Keywords: serbia--Holocaust--antisemitism--WWII

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
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 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. 
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    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.
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    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.
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    LOCATION:              CALL NUMBER:               STATUS:
  1. SML, Manuscripts and   MS 1322                    Check Shelf
       Archives  
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 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.
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    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.
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       Archives
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-- 
Prof. M. Victor Wickerhauser                      <victor@kirk.wustl.edu>
Department of Mathematics, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130 USA
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