1944: Sent to transit camp in Bacsalma/Hungary

Was in multiple concentration camps:

Auschwitz concentration camp

Niederorschel concentration camp

Buchenwald concentration camp

Liberated in April 1945 in Buchenwald after being forced on a death march

1947: Return to Serbia

Reunion with his father and sister

Father died a few months later

Best moment in his life: ”When the hatch of the tank opened and a soldier of the US army 6th Armored Division saluted and called to me ’You are free!’“.

1950: Immigration to the USA

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