Testimony of Avraham Albahari Gal Yam, born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, 1935, regarding his experiences in Yugoslavia, Split, Korchula and other places
Testimony of Avraham Albahari Gal Yam, born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, 1935, regarding his experiences in Yugoslavia, Split, Korchula and other places
Testimony
Testimony of Avraham Albahari Gal Yam, born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, 1935, regarding his experiences in Yugoslavia, Split, Korchula and other places
German Army occupation [of Yugoslavia], 1941; draft of his father into the military; detention [of his father] as a POW in a POW camp in Osnabruck, Germany; escape of the witness, with his mother, to the Italian occupied zone with help from a non-Jewish acquaintance; illegally crosses the border at Mostar while using forged documents; transfer by the authorities from Split to the Jewish community in the Korchula area; murder of 14 Jews as punishment for actions by the partisans; liberation of the area by the partisans, October 1943; agreement between Tito and the Allied forces; transfer of refugees from Yugoslavia to Italy; transfer from a Yugoslavian refugee camp to El Shatt camp in the Port Said area in Egypt.
Move back to Yugoslavia, 1945; reunion with his father; aliya to Israel, 1948.
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Avraham
Avram
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Albahari
Gal Yam
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07/09/1935
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Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
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Hebrew
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O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives