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morning we had already found the partisans and were divided into units. Of
the seven of us, three died in battle; four lived to see liberation.
The seven of us escaped from camp on September 12, 1942. We were six Jews
and one Croat, a veterinarian and member of the Party. He was arrested
because he was a party activist at the veterinarian faculty. His name was
Zorislav Golub. I advanced quickly in the partisans. We were all well
received without a trace of anti-Semitism; they were happy and satisfied to
have such qualified and capable people. All of us who had escaped from the
camp distinguished ourselves with great bravery and courage and fought
selflessly against fascism. We were all decorated and received promotions.
After only three months, I became a company commissar. I was wounded in
February 1943 and was hospitalized. I was operated on without any pain
medicine in the worst and most meager conditions. Later, since I was an
invalid, I was transferred to the command area. In 1944, I became a
commissar of the Vocin airport where the English mission was stationed and
where English planes came to give support to the partisans. In 1945, I
returned to my brigade, the XII Slavonska, and became the head of the
brigade's propaganda department. I came to Baljburg with the brigade on May
15, 1945, two weeks after the German capitulation. In Vocin, we surrounded
a group of a 100,000 Ustashe who surrendered thanks to the English who were
there with tanks.
morning we had already found the partisans and were divided into units. Of
the seven of us, three died in battle; four lived to see liberation.
The seven of us escaped from camp on September 12, 1942. We were six Jews
and one Croat, a veterinarian and member of the Party. He was arrested
because he was a party activist at the veterinarian faculty. His name was
Zorislav Golub. I advanced quickly in the partisans. We were all well
received without a trace of anti-Semitism; they were happy and satisfied to
have such qualified and capable people. All of us who had escaped from the
camp distinguished ourselves with great bravery and courage and fought
selflessly against fascism. We were all decorated and received promotions.
After only three months, I became a company commissar. I was wounded in
February 1943 and was hospitalized. I was operated on without any pain
medicine in the worst and most meager conditions. Later, since I was an
invalid, I was transferred to the command area. In 1944, I became a
commissar of the Vocin airport where the English mission was stationed and
where English planes came to give support to the partisans. In 1945, I
returned to my brigade, the XII Slavonska, and became the head of the
brigade's propaganda department. I came to Baljburg with the brigade on May
15, 1945, two weeks after the German capitulation. In Vocin, we surrounded
a group of a 100,000 Ustashe who surrendered thanks to the English who were
there with tanks.
Period
Interview
Cadik Danon