Auf glühendem Boden : ein jüdisches Überlebensschicksal in Jugoslawien 1941-1947 : mit den Berichten Dragutin Rosenbergs über die Lage der Juden in Jugoslawien an Saly Mayer als ehemaligen Präsidenten des Schweizerischen Israelitischen Gemeindebundes und das American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee

Pp. 17-170 recount the experiences of the author (b. 1914) under the Ustasha regime in his hometown Zagreb, and in Sarajevo and a succession of small towns and villages in Bosnia-Herzegovina. He survived thanks to a government program employing Jewish physicians; in 1944 he joined the partisans. Describes the fate of friends and relatives, many of whom perished in Jasenovac and other Ustasha concentration camps, and quotes eyewitnesses on atrocities there. Pp. 171-274 contain photographs and documents, among them (pp. 215-253) a report of April 1944 by Dragutin Rosenberg, vice-president of the Jewish community of Zagreb until September 1942, on the persecution of Jews in Croatia between 1941-43, the Ustasha concentration camps, and deportation to Auschwitz. also reports on the fate of Jews in Belgrade and in Serbian concentration camps. Pp. 255-258 contain an anonymous report on the Croatian Jews who had fled to Italian-occupied Dalmatia, were interned on the island of Rab, and survived with the aid of the partisans. 1. Aufl. 288 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm