Book on the Righteous - Jevrejska opština Zemun

Righteous Among The Nations - Serbia
Stories About The Righteous
Ica, Hermina, Slobodan Mićić and Magda
them how Hermina and Ica were in a safe place and that
he now wanted to take father and daughter to Kruševica
to join them. But Magda could not walk. In the process
of fleeing from the house and running uphill, she had
twisted her ankle. Aca took Josip to Kruševica while the
villagers transferred Magda to Ušće, near the Studenica
monastery. They placed her with the innkeeper, Prokić.
The house contained both dwelling quarters and the inn
dining-cum-buffet premises, frequented by Germans.
Magda dared not show her face beyond her small,
isolated room. A physician was also brought to check
on Magda’s foot. After a while it became too risky for
Magda to remain in the inn, so Prokić took her away to
his friend Vojvodić’s home, as far as possible from the
Germans.
Jovan Petrović was a forest ranger on mountain Kopaonik.
Each night he returned to his home in Kruševica
where his wife Rada looked after their guests. Jovan and
Rada had a son, Milan, and three daughters. The Fenjes
joined their efforts with Rada and her children in the
fieldwork that had to be done. It was a remote village,
on a road that Germans rarely took. Nevertheless, one
day, on returning to the village from work, Jovan learned
that someone had reported the Jewish family hiding in
his house to the Schwaben. He immediately took Josip,
Hermina and Ica to his friend Buda Pavlović in Krljane,
a village some 4-5 kilometres away from Kruševica.
At the same time, Magda had settled down in the
Vojvodić house. Her stay there was cut short when one
night the Germans came to the house to arrest her host’s
younger brother. Since they could not find the brother,
they apprehended her host. Frozen to the bone, Magda
spent the night outside with a villager who had helped
her escape from the Vojvodić home. When the information
that the Germans had left the house reached Magda,
she had already made up her mind not to return there.
Again she found herself staying with innkeeper Prokić.
As before, it was unsafe for her to stay there long, so she
Dušan Mićić, Magda Fenje, hosts, Ilonka Fenje and
father Josip Fenje – 1943.
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