Testimony of Boiana Iakoblevich, born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1922, regarding her experiences in Durazzo camp, Ferramonti Di Tarsa camp and with Tito's partisans

Testimony of Boiana Iakoblevich, born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1922, regarding her experiences in Durazzo camp, Ferramonti Di Tarsa camp and with Tito's partisans Jewish life in Belgrade before the war; status of the Jews; Jewish community activities; the way of life of the Sephardi and Ashkenazi communities; Jewish contribution to the city; co-existence; good relations with the Serbs; absorption of Jewish refugees from Austria and Czechoslovakia under the protection of the Yugoslavian authorities. German occupation, 06 April 1941; demonstrations in the streets; air-raids on the city of Hapuch; escape with her family towards the south to the area under Italian control; deportation of the Jews to the Durazzo camp in Albania; conditions and attitude of the local Italians; transfer to the Ferramonti Di Tarsa camp in southern Italy, October 1942; daily life; organized activities: school, choir, workshops; intervention by relatives and transfer to the Confino libero, free internment area, to the Bocche de Cattaro area; transfer to Bari, Yugoslavia, September 1943; joins the Yugoslavian partisans and Tito's headquarters; writes propaganda articles; Tito and his aides. Return to Belgrade; aliya to Israel, 1992.