Stefanović Mile ; Sister: Svjetličić Mileva (Stefanović)

Stefanović, Mile Svjetličić, Mileva Seka Mile Stefanović, lived in the village of Jajinci near Belgrade, and was friendly with the Bararon family, which resided in the city. When the persecution of the Jews began, following the invasion of Yugoslavia by Germany and its Axis allies in April 1941, Stefanović obtained false documents for Rivka Bararon and her son Jacov. He sheltered Rivka with his Serbian friends, purportedly as a Christian refugee from Bosnia. She was caught three months later, and sent to the Mauthausen concentration camp. Stefanović took Rivka’s two-year-old son Jakov to his family’s house in Jajinci, where he helped his sister, Mileva Seka, look after the child. As the war wore on, Seka was willing to continue taking care of the child, despite the fact that various members of the Stefanović family were involved with anti-Nazi activities, which made her a suspect in the eyes of the authorities, too. When she felt that she was being followed, she prepared a few hiding places for herself, to where she often fled in order to throw off her pursuers. Seka always took her Jewish ward with her, despite the extra danger it involved and he stayed with her until the end of the war. In 1945, Rivka Bararon (later Šlosberg) returned from Mauthausen and was reunited with her son. On December 23, 1992, Yad Vashem recognized Mileva Seka Svjetličić and her brother, Mile Stefanović, as Righteous Among the Nations.