Danon Dr Jakov - Jadovno 1941.

DEDO TRAMPIĆ, Memories, Doboj
I am Dedo Trampić born in 1922, Doboj. I got the
certificate of service in the Partisan forces as of the year of 1941.
I recall when they came to arrest Moric Trinki in June 1941
for whom they knew that he was a communist and to take him to
Jasenovac. He managed to escape, as I did as well, from prison in
Doboj from where I was supposed to go to the Court Martial in
Zagreb.
Walking on the street towards Modriča, I met Moric Trinki
and he asked me: "Where is the Headquarters, Dedo; I escaped and
I must let them know because my wife and children stayed in
Doboj". I told him that the Headquarters was up the hills and he moved on, but the Chetniks
caught him on the bridge and handed him over to the Ustashe.
Brothers Jozef and Albert Pesah belonged to the most famous Jewish family in Doboj.
Trinki was married to their sister. They stayed alive because they ran away from Doboj when
the war started and came to America. Buki Pesah was the third brother who was taken
together with all family members to the concentration camp where he was executed. There
was a family Ileša. They came from Petrovo Selo – Croatia, and I was a good friend of their
son Stjepan Ileš Pišta. They were baptized Jews and when the war began, they managed to
escape. Stjepan Ileš Pišta joined the Partisans in Moslavina. He lives in Sarajevo now. There
was a certain Gojković, the pharmaceutics. His second wife was the Jewess and she was a
friend of with the teacher – Jewess Šlagerova who had come from Sarajevo.
There was a synagogue before the war in downtown at ground level like the one there.
A rabbi Juda Mačoro was in the very town centre and we were in prison together. I didn’t
know what happened to him, I only knew that he was missing over night. In my childhood I
remembered that the Jews used to bring him chickens for slaughtering.
Levi worked at Pasha’s, as the manager of their shop, and he lived with his Jewish wife at the
former hotel "Belgrade". The hotel was renamed "Balkan" afterwards. It was interesting that
the first communist meeting was held in Levi’s apartment in Doboj.
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Dedo Trampić, 2009