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Jedna Hrvatska Priča - Film o Ivici Haasu

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ne Croatian Story - a film about Ivica Haas" directed by Jakov Sedlar. It is a story that tells the sad fate of the Jews in Požega who all perished in the concentration camps, including the Haas family, from which only the then two-year-old Ivica Haas was saved. He was saved from certain death by the Taborsky family, who showed great courage and humanity, and in doing so exposed themselves to great danger, and on two occasions fled from the Ustasha arrests in the vicinity of Požega and Kaptol, and hid. The boy Ivica survived, he was educated in Zagreb, and after the death of the Taborsky family he went to Israel. Today he has his family there, and in the film he talked about how he survived. At his suggestion, the Taborsky family was later proclaimed Righteous Among the Nations