Testimony of Sara Gunda (Pinto) Israel, born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, 1922, regarding her experiences using a false identity in Split, Rab, with the partisans in Vis and other places

Testimony of Sara Gunda (Pinto) Israel, born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, 1922, regarding her experiences using a false identity in Split, Rab, with the partisans in Vis and other places Life before the war; her father is the head of the Jewish community. German occupation; restrictions on the Jews; murder of Jews; hiding of her father in a hospital by his physician brother; deportation of Jews, summer 1941; obtains forged documents with the help of a non-Jew; escape to Split; life in Split under Italian occupation; escape of her father and sister with help from a Moslem friend; meets Jewish refugees; transfer to Brac; deportation to Rab camp; joins the partisans; life with the partisans; move to Vis; life in Vis including combat; receives a citation; liberation. Moves to Belgrade; life in Belgrade including work for the Borba newspaper; aliya to Israel with her husband, 1951.