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Accident of Fate is a first-hand account of persecution, rescue, and resistance in the Axis-occupied former Yugoslavia. At the age of thirteen, Imre Rochlitz fled to Yugoslavia from his childhood home in Vienna following the Nazi Anschluss, leaving his family behind. In January 1942 the Ustashe (Croatian Fascists) arrested and interned him in the Jasenovac death camp, where he dug mass graves. On the verge of death, Rochlitz was released due to the extraordinary intervention of a Nazi general. He escaped to the Adriatic coast, where he and several thousand other Jewish refugees were protected by the army of Fascist Italy. After Italy's surrender, he joined Tito's Partisans, becoming an officer and army veterinarian, and rescued dozens of downed Allied airmen. In 1945, he fled Yugoslavia's Communist regime and reached liberated southern Italy. In 1947, at the age of twenty-two, he emigrated to the United States.
With unique personal photographs and documents supporting the text, this eyewitness narrative covers little-known topics and provides a revealing historical account of the period. The book helps clarify and render accessible the complexities and contradictions of conflict and genocide in wartime Yugoslavia.
Contents
Accident of Fate: A Personal Account, 1938-1945 by Imre Rochlitz and Joseph Rochlitz
List of Illustrations
Preface
Prologue: Vienna
1. Anschluss
2. Zagreb
3. Invasion
4. Prison
5. Jasenovac
6. Release and Escape
7. Split
8. Novi
9. Kraljevica
10. Rab
11. Lika
12. Joining the Partisans
13. Veterinarian
14. A Communist Regime
15. Friendships and Hardships
16. Airmen
17. Seventh Offensive
18. The Captain and the Commissar
19. Vlado
20. Departure
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Appendix
Glossary of Names and Places
Selected Bibliography
Index
