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Righteous Among The Nations - Serbia Stories About The Righteous OPERATION TONSILS The Schefer family - father, mother and little Pista - were among the many Jews that had sought refuge in Hungary at the beginning of the war. The Schefers had run away from Novi Sad and found a provisional home in the village of Baja. Residing with them was also Pista’s maternal grandmother. They lived relatively peacefully up to 1943. Then, once again, the Hungarian regime had to carry the full weight of their alliance with the Third Reich. At the time, German soldiers were fighting gruesome battles on the Eastern Front; Stalingrad was defending itself heroically. The German army was running short of manpower necessary for their aspired conquests. The Hungarian government was ordered to send new reinforcement units. Mr. Schefer, still relatively young, was on the list of men destined for the Eastern Front. Going to war meant that he would have to leave his young wife Magda and their child, as well as Magda’s aging mother. All that aside, he personally had no ambition to fight this war. He was already mobilized when he decided to desert. However, he didn’t get very far. His intentions were discovered and the Hungarian Fascists killed him in the course of the attempted escape. At the time, Mileta Lepčević, a fellow citizen from Novi Sad, was also in Baja, just like the Schefer`s. Although an internee in Baja, obliged to report daily to the police, Mileta was still regarded by relevant authorities as suitable for high-position employment in the Hungarian establishment. He lived in an apartment rented by a Jewish family. Through his host he met many Jews from Baja and was on very friendly terms with the Schefer family. The war was nearing its end and the German High Command, disgruntled by Hungarian inefficiency and results regarding the Jewish question, i.e., the termination of Jews, occupied Hungary in the first days of spring 1944. Being a Serb, Mileta was, in all probability, deemed above suspicion by Hungarian authorities, as far as, information on the impending outcome of the Jewish agenda was concerned. He soon learnt that a ghetto, from which Jews would be transported to death camps, was being set up in Baja. He immediately informed his friends about the details. Once the fate of those destined for the ghetto became clear to all, Magda asked Mileta to save her little boy, Pista. What Mileta wanted was to save them all, but that was impossible. The internment of Jews inside the ghetto and transportation to the death camps lasted over two weeks. However, Mileta had previously taken Pista into hiding. He had gone to a doctor friend who worked in the local hospital and told him that Pista had tonsillitis and that he had to be operated on. The physician immediately understood what was under way and admitted the boy to hospital. Mileta also took Magda home to stay with him, but after spending the one night in hiding, she knew that she could not leave her mother on her own. The two women were led to the ghetto and transported from there to Auschwitz. It was discovered later that together with many other Jews, they too had been taken on the journey of no return. Before enterine the ghetto, Magda had handed over all her money and valuables to Mileta - all in all, a small fortune. Mileta had never suspected that his friends were so wealthy. By the end of September l944, at the time these events were taking place, Mileta’s life was also increasingly threatened. The last transport for camp Auschwitz had departed and the time had come for Pista to leave the hospital. Mileta somehow managed to inform and ask Dr. Tabaković from Subotica to look after Pista prior to the beginning of his trial before the Martial court of the III Segedin army. The boy, who in the meantime had had his healthy tonsils removed, was to be discharged from hospital. 84
Righteous Among The Nations - Serbia Stories About The Righteous Pista was staying in Dr.Tabaković’s country house on Lake Palić when the war ended. The end of the war also saved Mileta’s life; the court proceedings were never concluded. Two years later, one of Pista’s uncles came for him. All the money and valuables Mileta had received from Magda were given to the uncle, who in due course emigrated to Israel with Pista. Mileta Lepčević and Dr. Pavle Tabaković both awarded a Righteous among Nations in 1978 85
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