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One day I could sit in front of the computer and write the story of my mother Božidarka Freit to finally discover the real truth … My mother was very upset that the Jasenovac camp has been all over the media for days, tabloid headlines and statements appear who did not give, does not want to talk about it, is shocked. We did not see the movie “Dara iz Jasenovac” and therefore cannot even comment on it.
This is what the Croatian actress Bojana Gregorić, daughter of the famous Yugoslav actress Božidarka Freit (81), says about Kurir, who has returned to the center of public attention in recent days because she survived the Jasenovac concentration camp during two years. eldest son of a Serbian family from Kozara, where she was saved by Diana Budisavljević.
And until your daughter writes her mother’s confession once, we are transmitting to her parts of the book “The War and the Children of Kozara” by Dragoj Lukić, which also describes the suffering of the Božidarka family.
Freit, who became famous for her role in the film “Republic of Užice”, and which the public had the opportunity to see, for example, in “The road to Montevideo”, was born with the surname Grublješić in 1940 in the town of Velika Žuljevica near Kozara. He was less than two years old when the Ustahas shot his mother Vida. Along with thousands of children, she was deported to a children’s camp in Sisak, from where she was transferred to the Red Cross shelter in Zagreb. There she was adopted by Katarina and Stjepan Frajt, who raised her as a daughter, and Božidarka only discovered her true origin at the age of 36, when her aunt Dara Grublješić, a first fighter from Kozara, finally found her.
His father died as a fighter in the Second Krajina Brigade. – In the Kozara offensive, Mother Vida was dragged from Kozara to the Cerovljane concentration camp. The road led through Jasenovac to the village of Klokočevac, near Bjelovar. She was carrying little Božidarka, her only son. The town was partisan and there were many shootings one night. The Ustashas came and took Vidu and his family to Sisak. The day after his arrival, the mothers took the children and shot Vida, Lukić writes.
On October 16, 1942, 566 small, half-alive, hungry, thirsty, and scared children were carried away in Sisak cattle wagons, with cardboard hanging around their necks, which many broke or ate. Among them was Božidarka, who kept her card, and with 30 other children she was secretly rescued and placed in the Red Cross shelter in Zagreb, from where she was adopted by the Freit family just five days later.
The childless husbands Katarina and Stjepan Frajt took, as it is written in the documents, to “support and raise a girl with the number 527” in October 1942.
– I am infinitely grateful to these people. I don’t remember anything from that early childhood … I remember the first dress they put on me and I remember that I had no hair – said Frajtova in 1979 on the Radio Belgrade program.
Bojana Gregorić:
Mom’s trip was more than difficult
Božidarka’s daughter, Croatian actress Bojana Gregorić Vejzović, said in an interview with Kurir a few years ago that she couldn’t imagine a girl going down a similar path to her mother in the 21st century. – God forbid! Horror, violence, orphans … It never happened again … My mother’s journey was more than difficult, and her will and joie de vivre were more than strong. Brave people step forward and do not turn to the sadness of the past, but, bathed in the glimmer of an unrecognizable future, they walk wholeheartedly with the conviction that tomorrow can always be better … Well, that it’s my mom.
Hell for the little ones
Professor Camilo Bresler and Jana Koch, a young Red Cross sister, were among the prominent organizers of the rescue of scattered children at the Zagreb train station.
– Once again, I couldn’t survive everything. 850 children from Stara Gradiška were dragged in cattle wagons. It was the first transport. The ustashas rushed us to empty the composition as soon as possible. We took out 40 dead children. While they were being transported, another 17 died, and during bathing and disinfection another 37. The workers of the Railway Colony, sheltered by the Ustashas, brought buckets of water and soaked the lips of the crying children; Jana then recalled the horror in a conversation for Dragoj Lukić’s book.
(Kurir.rs/Jelena Pronić)
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