Testimony of Eliezer Lazo Altarez, born in Sarajevo, 1928, regarding his experiences in Stara-Gradiska, using a false identity with Moslems in Sarajevo, Korcula, Nonantola and other places

Testimony of Eliezer Lazo Altarez, born in Sarajevo, 1928, regarding his experiences in Stara-Gradiska, using a false identity with Moslems in Sarajevo, Korcula, Nonantola and other places Childhood before the war; relations with the Moslem population. German occupation, April 1941; anti-Jewish legislation; sells various items on the black market in exchange for food; deportation to Stara Gradiska concentration camp with his mother, March 1942; camp life; forges personal documents; released; return to Sarajevo; hidden by Moslems; escape to Korcula and meets his brother; travel to Nonantola with a group of Jewish youth; life in Villa Emma; receives treatment by a physician and the local priest; German occupation, late 1943; escape to Switzerland. Move to a reception camp near Zurich; work for farmers; aliya training and Hebrew studies; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1944; details concerning the fate of his family.