We Always Walked Together – The Story of Lili Gomboš

A short documentary. Lili Gomboš, born in 1930, lived in Zagreb until the beginning of the Second World War. After the outbreak of war, she managed to escape with part of her family from the Independent State of Croatia to Dalmatia, to the territory under Italian administration. From November 1942 she was interned in the camp in Kraljevica, and then from June 1943 in the camp on the island of Rab. In 1944, she was taken via Trieste to Auschwitz-Birkenau and survived the war through a set of circumstances. Her entire family was killed in the Holocaust, except for her sister Estera who joined the Partisans and thus survived. After the war, Lili returned to Zagreb, and in 1948 she immigrated to Israel where she started a family. Lili Gomboš has devoted much of her time to educating about the horrors of the Holocaust and preserving the memory of Yugoslav Jews.