Zlatko V. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1305) [videorecording] / interviewed by Jaša Almuli, December 17, 1989.

Belgrade, Serbia : Jewish Community in Belgrade, 1989.

1 videorecording (1 hr., 36 min.) : col.

This testimony is in Serbian.

Videotape testimony of Zlatko V., who was born in Sušak, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy(presently Croatia) in 1914. He recalls moving to Zagreb after World War I; attending school; participating in Maccabi athletics; working in a factory; his parents' deaths in the mid-1930s; antisemitic harassment beginning in 1938; German invasion in 1941; arrest by the Ustaša on June 21, 1941; deportation to Pag Island; gruelling slave labor, starvation, and beatings; a speech by a camp official, Vjekoslav Luburić, informing them of their evacuation in August; transfer to Krapje; slave labor building levees; transfer to Jasenovac in October; slave labor in a brick factory and on the levee; learning of mass killings of Jews, Romanies, and Serbians in other parts of the camp; the high death rate from sickness and starvation; sadistic killings and public executions by Ustaša guards; solidarity with Communist prisoners; obtaining guns from Communists as they arrived; escaping with a friend during a storm; swimming across the Sava river; assistance from a local woman in contacting partisans; joining a partisan brigade; combat for the remainder of the war; becoming a commander; and his postwar military career. Mr. V. notes most of his family was killed in the Holocaust and persistent nightmares resulting from his experiences.

June 01, 2002

Zlatko V. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1305). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Zlatko V. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1305). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

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