Danon Dr Jakov - Jadovno 1941.

you to pass through the concentration camp and after that just go straight and when you see
the first house this is my parent’s house. They will receive you." It occurred as she said.
I was scared passing through the concentration camp and I saw the long line of woman
escorted by the Ustashes towards the ferry in Gradina. I saw also that bareheaded men were
passing at the edge of the road, in a line one by one, who appeared and disappeared at once.
When I approached I saw the board and underit large and deep hole filled up with the people
in the flame. Scared to the death I passed two check points with automatic rifles and after I
passed the last bunker I ran as fast as I could over the abandoned meadows and fields and
broke into the first house and after a while I understood that I was in the right place. The
house was next to the concentration camp, near the Sava River and in the night we couldn’t
turn the light on and each sound echoed far away.
In Košutarice we used to climb up over the broad panel, to the attic window to see
where these strange sounds and screams come from what we heard every night. One night
we saw in the twilight a group of women and the Ustashes who ordered them to sing. Nigh
time, the moonlight and Ustasha again orders: "Sing" and one of them sings: "The Gypsy girl
walks, walks in the water and Ustasha takes out the heart, takes out, takes out my heart, your
child will cry" (Note: literal translation of the song). Then the scream and moan was heard
and the Ustashe knifed and killed them and the other women cried as they had their own
children and could see what will also happen to them. Scared to the death we couldn’t come
down from the attic, we again returned and saw that after the women, the men came, who
started to scream and cry more than women did. This was the scream spread deeply in the
night and which was hard to be heard, and not to mention when it was seen.
Soon, I felt a stomach ache and she took me at the Doctor in Novska. He told this was
appendicitis. He proscribed me some medicines and said that if it didn’t stop I might have the
appendicitis what have to be operated. We again headed toward Jasenovac and I still felt
the pain. Brother of the woman, who took me in the street from the Ustashes, turned towards
hospital which was placed in abandoned Serbian houses, which served for the treatment of
their family members only. After they left me in hospital, they immediately went back. I was
alone and waited in the bed with a large lamp above me. Some people came and asked "How
are you feeling girl". I answered I felt well and that I could go home. They said: "We can’t
allow you to go, as it is night time". One large man, walked with the chains on his legs, (they
all had chains on their legs). When they walk the chains resounded. When he passed above
me, put a mask on my face and I slept. Later on I found out that these Doctors were the Jews
and that I was operated by Dr Vilko Klajn with his sister Olga. I was in hospital for a while
and the old man Mato was concerned. I told to these doctors who I was and they were
surprised. "All of us thought you must be an Ustashe’s child, and if we knew that you are
from that house we will allow you to go out within three days".
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Buđa Jela, 2009