Testimony of Mina Muntag, born in Osijek, Yugoslavia, 1922, regarding her experiences in Djakovo camp, with Yugoslavian partisans and work in the Vienna area using a false identity

Testimony of Mina Muntag, born in Osijek, Yugoslavia, 1922, regarding her experiences in Djakovo camp, with Yugoslavian partisans and work in the Vienna area using a false identity Life before the war; member of Hashomer Hatzair. German occupation and decrees; burning of the Great Synagogue, 14 April 1941; deportation of the men to camps; suicides; establishment of an agricultural farm in Tenje; deportation of the women and children to Nova Gradiska and then to Djakovo camp, using Ustasha guards; typhus; escape from the camp by use of bribery and forged documents; move from Tuzla to Gnosnica; adopts the false name of Emina; partisan activities as a courier and signaler; move with the partisans to Vukovije to the Bosnian mountains; sabotage activities, blowing-up bridges and train tracks; saved by Dr. Rosa Papo, a partisan physician, in Trnava hospital; Tito visits the hospital; hiding in a bunker with other patients; discovery of the hiding place; pretending to be a Volksdeutsche and move to Vienna to work manufacturing bombs in a Hornyphon factory; attempts to sabotage work; air-raids and escape to Pechtersdorf; informed on; transfer to work digging trenches against the Soviets; work in a knitting factory; advance of the Red Army; escape to Rodaun; liberation in Vienna. Return to Osijek; marriage; aliya to Israel due to antisemitism.