Testimony of Michael Zoltan Bochner, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding his experiences in Zagreb, Belgrade, in hiding in villages in Serbia and with the partisans

Testimony of Michael Zoltan Bochner, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding his experiences in Zagreb, Belgrade, in hiding in villages in Serbia and with the partisans Life before the war; emigration of the family to Czechoslovakia; move to Zagreb. Outbreak of the war, 1941; escape to Belgrade; life in Belgrade; air-raids; escape south; hidden by a Serb family; life in hiding using an assumed identity; hiding the tephilin; escape via various villages; offer by a Serb priest to hide the family; arrest by Yugoslavia gendarmes; transfer to the German command; interrogation of the father by a Volksdeutsche; release from detention; obligation to report to the German command; liberation by the Red Army. Joins the partisans under the command of Josip Tito, 1944; enlists in the Yugoslavian Army, 1947; aliya to Israel, 1948.