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Object description
Yugoslav Jewish child in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia, 1941-1942; served as courier with Yugoslav Partisans in Yugoslavia, 1942-1945
Content description
REEL 1 Background in Karlovac, Croatia, Yugoslavia, 1932-1941: character of area; family; degree of religious belief; degree of anti-Semitism experienced; details of father Ivo Goldstein's background; Jewish community in Karlovac; ethnic mix in area; education; degree of awareness of outbreak of Second World War, 3/9/1939; character of brother Slavko Goldstein; memories of family's nanny; demonstration against Yugoslavia joining Axis pact, 27/3/1941.
REEL 2 Continues: Aspects of period as schoolchild in Karlovac, Croatia and Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia, 1941-1942: arrival of German forces in town, 4/1941; behaviour of German Army troops towards children; activity of Ustashe prior to German occupation; arrest of father Ivo Goldstein; fate of father Ivo Goldstein at hands of Ustashe in Jadovno Concentration Camp, 7/1941; imprisonment of mother Lea Goldstein; how he was cared for by a Christian Mr Trontl; move to live with grandparents in Tuzla, joining mother and brother. Recollections of period as courier with Yugoslav Partisans in Yugoslavia, 1942-1945: decision to join partisans in Krizisce, 3/1942.
REEL 3 Continues: abortive attempts of mother to find him a Christian home; joining partisans at Krizisce; mother Lea Goldstein's work with partisan hospital; first night in camp; description of partisan group; move to central camp at Dreznica, summer 1942; presence of children and orphans in camp; work as courier; weapons and uniform worn of Yugoslav Partisans; support for partisans from Yugoslav civil population.
REEL 4 Continues: attitude towards partisan life; reasons why partisans received support from civilian population; morality and discipline with group; importance of Josip Tito's leadership; courier duties; description of action in which he was wounded; partisan hospital hidden in woods; medical problems.
REEL 5 Continues: development of partisan movement by 1944; move to coast of Dalmatian Coast, 1944; presence of female partisans; rules regarding sexual relations; adapting to partisan lifestyle; shortages of food and water; question of problem of accepting aid from 'Imperialist' Allies; lack of Soviet aid to Yugoslav Partisans; degree of Soviet contribution to liberation of Yugoslavia; attitude towards Draža Mihailović and Chetniks.
REEL 6 Continues: situation for Jews in wartime Croatia; support for Fascism in wartime Croatia. Recollections of period as civilian in Croatia, Yugoslavia and Israel, 1945-1966: attending school organised by Yugoslav Partisans; psychological state at end of Second World War; complexity of situation in Yugoslavia; relations between Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, 1948; reasons for move to Israel, 1949; attitude to life in Israel; awareness of Holocaust; attitude towards Jewish identity.
REEL 7 Continues: attitude towards partisan experience; dissident behaviour during mid 1960s; connections with Franjo Tudjman; imprisonment in 1966; nature of interrogations. Reflections on situation in Former Yugoslavia, 1998: opinion of extreme nationalism of Slobodan Milosevic and Franjo Tudjman; attitude towards breakup of Yugoslavia; anti-Semitism in Croatia, 1998.