ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 2004
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

MY FATHER`S BLESING: Ivan Singer

Naslov My Fatherʹs Blessing : my salvation / Ivan Singer
Vrsta građe knjiga
Jezik engleski
Godina 2004
Izdavanje i proizvodnja Sydney : Singer Consulting, 2002
Fizički opis XIX, 456 str., [18] str. s tablama ; 24 cm
ISBN 0-646-41779-7
Predmetne odrednice Singer, Ivan, 1922- -- Memoari

It is a story about real people mentioned by their real names. It deals with the fate and lives of the Jewish population of the Banat and Belgrade, Serbia (Yugoslavia) during the Holocaust. It is a memorial to all the Jews of a little town called Vršac: in the province of Banat, in the northern part of Serbia.

Ivan Singer was a first year medical student in Belgrade when Yugoslavia was attacked on April 6, 1941. Witnessing the destruction of the Jewish community in Nazi-controlled Serbia, Singer escaped the slaughter, finding his way as many other Jews to Tito`s partisans. Joining the partisans afforded him the ability to fight back and to embark on a career as a fighter pilot. Trained in the Soviet Union, he eventually became an officer in the Yugoslav air force.

This is a story of the transformation of a middle class Jewish student, a desperate refugee from the Nazi terror in Serbia to a seasoned partisan fighter and a Soviet trained fighter pilot. Mr Singer`s memoirs offer a very rare witness account of the Nazi extermination of the Jewish community in Serbia; of the Nazi attack on the partisan headquarters in Drvar in 1944; and of the wartime allied support for the partisans.

The extermination of the Jews of Serbia began in 1941 and finished early in 1942. Singer believes that he is the only living survivor of the camp called Topovske Šupe. It was a place where the Germans collected all Jews of the Banat and Belgrade to be shot, executed in groups of 100 or 200 at a time. The whole deed lasted a mere four months. The Holocaust in Yugoslavia was swift and merciless.

This book is a true story about the war, people, justice and remembrance. `The victims have remained victims. Justice can never be done, but they must not be forgotten. They live in my memory and I hope that they will live in the memory of those who read this book` Singer writes.

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