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Testimony of Dina (Katan) Ben Zion, born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, 1937, regarding her experiences using a false identity in Dubrovnik, Brac Island and Rab Island
Testimony
Testimony of Dina (Katan) Ben Zion, born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, 1937, regarding her experiences using a false identity in Dubrovnik, Brac Island and Rab Island
From a traditional Sephardi family.
Outbreak of war, April 1941; obtains Aryan papers from Pavo Sehtel, a Croatian friend; escape to Dubrovnik; move to Split, February 1942; life under Italian occupation; deportation to Brac Island, September 1942; life in a detention camp; transfer to a concentration camp on Rab Island, May 1943; surrender of Italy, September 1943; release; wanderings under the protection of Tito's partisans.
Move to Bari; move to Carbonare refugee camp, July 1944; aliya to Eretz Israel with Youth Aliyah; life on Kibbutz Merahavia, 1945; return to Sarajevo at the request of her parents; life under Communism; aliya to Eretz Israel with her parents, 1948; Holocaust reflections in her poetry and the books she chooses to translate.
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item Id
5091284
First Name
Dina
Last Name
Ben Zion
Maiden Name
Katan
Date of Birth
15/03/1937
Place of Birth
Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
Type of material
Testimony
File Number
12414
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
Date of Creation - earliest
22/12/03
Date of Creation - latest
30/05/04
Name of Submitter
BEN ZION KATAN DINA
Original
YES
No. of pages/frames
33
Interview Location
ISRAEL
Connected to Item
O.3 - Testimonies gathered by Yad Vashem
Form of Testimony
Video
Subjects
Dedication
Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem Archival Collection