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Righteous Among The Nations - Serbia Stories About The Righteous was christened Alexander, after his new father. The hosts received the Levis as if they were close family. They shared with them everything they had. But Jacques worried about his father. Convinced that Anka and the children were in safe hands, he returned to Jabukovac. He stayed mostly with Nikola, and at times at Djanta’s while his father kept moving from Djanta’s home to Nikolica’s, and the home of Bogdan Popović. One evening Nikolica came to Nikola’s house and told Jacques to come and see his father who was waiting for him at granddad Jovan’s house. Djanta was there also. It was already getting dark when Jacques and Djanta decided to see Mosha off to Bogdan’s where he had been staying for some time now. Nikolica came along as well. Heading for Bogdan’s, Djanta, Nikolica and Jacques walked slowly beside a weary Mosha. Night had already fallen, but Mosha had to stop and rest every few steps. Barely uttering a word he would turn his eyes to the stars above while resting. As they were passing by Djanta’s house, the old Jew could go no further. He lowered himself beside the fence, asked Jacques to hold his hand and died. It was a time when even a dead Jew had to be hidden so as not to endanger his benefactors. Djanta and Nikolica put together a makeshift coffin and in absolute secrecy buried Mosha in Djanta’s garden. The following day Djanta took Jacques to Popovica where he joined his family staying with Alexander Djurković. The life the Levis led in cohabitation with their hosts differed little from that of a large, harmonious family. Towards the end of 1943 German search expeditions of the terrain surrounding Deli Jovan became more frequent. Life till then had been safe from unexpected German patrols still relentlessly on the look out for Jews in hiding. Suddenly, they were all endangered, the Levis and their hosts likewise. Djanta came to the rescue again and took the Levis to his friends, Andra and Katarina Stojanović, who lived in Malajnica in Katarina’s parents, Živka and Nikola Dumitrašković’s Nikola and Živka Dumitrašković with daughter Katarina, later husband’s family name Stojanović home. Of course, the Stojanovićs also dared not take them into their house, but moved them into a log cabin in the middle of a corn field. Life in the cabin was tough for the Levis. Djordje was barely a year old and their daughter, Rena, five. The family dared not leave the cabin during daytime. Andrei and Katarina also had two small children. From time to time Andrei brought their son, Rena’s peer, to play with her while he kept watch fearing that someone unwanted might catch sight of the newcomers within their midst. It was the time of year when it was very cold in the log cabin. Since there was 158
Righteous Among The Nations - Serbia Stories About The Righteous no way they could light a fire for fear of being detected, Katarina brought all the spare blankets and covers they had in their house to protect them from the cold. A fire was lit only when Andrei and Katarina made a show of tending to jobs that allegedly needed to be done. It was the hardest winter the Levi family had to live through. With the spring of 1944, it was becoming clear by the day that war was reaching its end. The Levis decided to thank their hosts for providing them with shelter and move to their friend’s, Ljuba Milenković’s, house in Štubik. Ljuba was the borough bookkeeper and knew Jacques very well, so the Levis felt very much at home in the Milenkovićs’ household. Štubik is situated on the road from Negotin towards Central Serbia. When the Russians entered Serbia from Romania by way of the Danube, they cut off German army troops on the retreat, fleeing from Serbia in haste. The fighting that progressed in the vicinity of Štubik drove the Levis to seek safer refuge once again. Once again they returned to Malajnica, to the farmstead of Živka and Nikola Dumitrašković where Djordje Stojanović, their host’s grandson, was also staying. They stayed there up to the end of the war. When Negotin was liberated, they needed transportation to take them to their home. Naturally, it could only fall to Djanta, who had hovered over their safety and wellbeing for so long, to take them back. He arrived with his ox-drawn cart, but this time had no cause to drive over the rough countryside and down remote paths. He took the Levis down the safest road to their home in Negotin. Mitra and Djordje Blendić, Milka and Tihomir Jovanović awarded a Righteous among Nations in 1992 Jovan Blendić, son Nikola and grandson Nikolica, Alexander Djurković, Ljubo Milenković Marija and Djordje Popović all awarded a Righteous among Nations in 1999 Djordje Stojanović awarded a Righteous among Nations in 2000 Katarina and Andrei Stojanović both awarded a Righteous among Nations in 2001 159
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