Danon Dr Jakov - Jadovno 1941.

the silver candlesticks were taken from the Temple, the ornament for Torra, even the curtains
were handed over to the Ustasha’s head of the concentration camp. The Germans were the
first ones to get into the Jewish houses, then the Ustashas, an were doing a shameless robbery,
without any warrant or receipt. Almost all prominent Jews of District Office from Bihać were
arrested and taken to the prison: a rabbi Atijas Avram, dr Emil Levi - a judge of the District
court, Levi Rikard ( Kiko) a son of dr Emil Levi, student, Moco Kaveson - a lawyer, Rudi
Rehniker, and the small tradesmen: Jakov Kaveson, Jakov Baruh, Levi Moric, Haim Farhi –
a geometer, Atijas Albert (Miko) - an employee of "Tivar".
The communists were arrested, and then bestially killed, there were among them:
Salamon (Braco) Kaveson, David Atijas. Already on 22 nd of June, 1941 almost all Bihać Jews
were arrested and driven away to the concentration camp of the village of Bukovača near
Bosanski Petrovac. At the same night the Ustasha’s first lieutenant Enver Kapetanović came
in, with the escort, having approached to the bestial spanking of the Jewish prisoners to
exhaustion, not looking the them being old or their agr group. 119 The living conditions in the
concentration camp were very difficult and unconditional. The building where the
concentration camp was had no toilet, and we were releaving ourselves in the premise where
we slept. The psychosis was terrible in the concentration camp. The trenches around the
helping airport in Bosanski Petrovac were being digged during the day, and nightly the
Ustashas were abusing bestially over all prisoners, whom they pulled out outside, and then
raped, returning them again half-dead in the concentration camp. In the benefit of ISC
propaganda, so-called conditionality of the concentration camp, for the Red Cross needs, they
were mainly taking photos of the smaller groups of prisoners doing the hygiene measures of
having bath and washing, while they were forcing the children to play imitating, by that, the
conditions of fun and careless living in the concentration camp. After some time, the Ustashas
gathered all Jews from Bihać and escorted to Kulen Vakuf, and then to Bosanski Petrovac,
and finally to Prijedor. The District president from Bihać allowed to the Jews to go whereever
they wanted, and they went mostly there where they had their relatives and known people. But
the majority heavily stayed in Prijedor. The Jews having gone to Cazin and Bosanski Petrovac
were collected straight away and returned to Bihać, and then killed in the village of Žegar,
near Bihać.
By the liberation of Prijedor in May 1942, the young joinred to the ranks of NLM and
were being set off to the refuge towards the mountains Kozara and Grmeč. The Jews forced to
stay in Prijedor after the partisan retreat, were mainly taken to concentration camps St.
Gradiška, Jasenovac across Banja Luka or were being killed on the spot (military
concentration camp Žegar near Bihać). As we can see, in the moment of truth, faced with the
thin line between the life and death, the Jews from Bihać joined to National Liberation
Movement (NLM), which, nevertheless, was giving a hope in lifge and undreamed Zionist
dream. To that movement the Jews who joined were:
Abinun Avram Moric , an engineer of agriculture from Bihać, born in 1910. Before
the war his father kept a small shop of petty goods on the market place. He completed
agronomy in Zagreb. On 24 th of June of 1941, when all Serbs and Jews were driven away
from Bihać, Abinun, with all members of his family was settled in the concentration camp in
the village Bukovača, and from there to Bos. Petrovac, and then to Prijedor. After the getting
of the permit from Prijedor, he went to Cazin where he joined to NLA in 1942 as a
quartermaster in the background units of Bosnian corps. He got killed very early in the severe
fights in Ključ in 1943, during the very fourth enemy offensive of the Germans.
Atijas Azriel Cevi (a lawyer), born on 20 th July of 1914 in Bihać. Yet in the grammar
school he joined to the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (CPY), and was arrested as a
communist in 1932. On the procedure before the state court, who was run by notorious
Belgarade policemen, Kosmajac and Vučković, in 1932, against 26 accused Bihać
119 The Jews who were evacuated in Bos. Petrovac, and then to Prijedor, allegedly they were directed to the hard
labor able, while their families were in Cazin District.
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