Danon Dr Jakov - Jadovno 1941.

open robbery and simple grabbing of the Jewish as the Serbian shops in Sanski Most. 128 There
is the datae that the German soldiers shared the robbed goods with the Croats so-called
Ustashas, and then carefully packed their part and sent to their parents and relatives to
Germany, to be seen what a son "earned in German military". That was only an aspect of
further popularizationand propaganda in the progressing of German army, on all fronts.
Ustashas, in order to show that the authority was yet theirs, they introduced the police hour,
and there appears the first arrestings of more prominent Serbs and Jews, and for whom they
had the data that they had touch with the CPY. Already tomorrow an Ustashas-German patrol
was caught by a group of young men (Miloš Todorović, Dušan Basara, Nedeljko Miličević),
amon them there was a young Atijas Rafael. The scale of repressive measures was increasing
the threats, blackmails every day. The Ustashas’agents in the shops, and the confiscation of
movable property and real estates were just a part of preparation works for the following
genocide.
They were retreating from the programme a little bit, wishing the things to be done in
as short as possible period, and with the measures of economic destruction, they were
begining with the physical destruction. The guards of Ustashas-Germans soldiers were
disposed in the town, no one was leaving the houses, the town was covered with posters
"Germany wins on all fronts", and there was a flag swastika waving on the square. The
Germans, with the help of Croatian Ustashas and because of the suffering of German
soldiers, were carrying out the revenge over the Serbian population. In order to accomplish
the plan the city drummer, Klepić Mile, invited the residents of Sanski Most, mainly the Serbs
and Jews, aged from 16 to 60, to report, because of so-called "roll", in the building of the
primary school, and the one who was not about to report was going to be shot. On that day,
on 8 th May of 1941, 350 more prominent Serbs and 30 Jews were detained in the basement of
the primary school in unsanitary conditions. After that, the Ustashas ordered them to hand
over everything on the spread tablecloth: money, rings, watches, gold, documents and
photographs.
The long and endless tortures and
sufferings appeared. On the day, 9 th May, the
Ustashas ordered that the prisoners from the
village of Tomine to get out the basement and line
up. The column of innocent Serbs moved from the
school yard, through the park, down the Ključka
street, with the song of "Lili Marlen", that the
German soldiers, who were escorting them, were
singing. The revenge was being performed by
shooting of 27 Serbs by German fascist, because
of the killing of three German soldiers.
The first Jewish victim from Sanski Most was Levi Sado. He, as a communist, was
killed these days in Zagreb. Then, the very criminal perfidy and malice appeared in order,
which limited with insanity. It was ordered to hangt the shot Serbs on the trees across the
town. 129
On the order of the Germans, the hanging was about to be performed by Đuro Grbić,
the priest of the village of Tomina, with a Jew and a strong prisoner. On the following day, on
10 th May of 1941 the enemy let that the rest of of the prisoners receive the food, as nothing
happened. On the day, 11 th May of 1941 in the school yard, a German officer, with a help of
the chemist, a Jew, Otto Goldberger, who knew German, announced that the authority in town
128 In Sanski District in 1941, according to the roll of population from 1931, 381.000 of Serbs were living,
18.650 Muslims, 9.040 Croats and 79 Jews.
129 The village of Dabar, Sanski Most District, got over 700 calls by Croatian Ustashas command, to come to the
town because of the distribution of the sugar, coffee and salt, in order to be brought in the town on a freud, to be
shot. Almost no one was not be deceived.
108
City park in Sanski Most in 1941