My name is Andrea, I'm 28, from Croatia. I'm researching my family history and in general I got to cca 17th century, but I'm trying to go into more detail now. I had family on all sides of the war, in the SS, dying in and surviving Auschwitz, communists and četnik. My Waffen SS g-grandfather died (went missing) near Budapest, the četnik one died in Bosnia and one died in Auschwitz. Their wives and families were being placed in DP camps (Passau, El-Shatt) or taken to concentration camps. One of my g-grandmothers survived Auschwitz. Because of all this I'm really interested in finding not only documents from DP camps, interrogation transcripts, prisoners lists, and other evidence of their existence but I'm also trying to figure out what their lives might have been like, beyond "miserable," so I'm researching specific places and important events. I'm also very interested in finding out why and how some things happened, especially regarding the DP camps. I have some documents now, a letter from Auschwitz and arrest photos, newspaper clippings, financial aid requests, birth, wedding and death certificates etc. but I'm always looking for more. And I have a really hard time remembering dates and names of anything, which is a bit of a problem when doing history research, yep. Expect long, hard to explain questions
Welcome to the forum, Andrea. Post photos of the documents if you wish, and don't be afraid of asking questions, We love 'em.
Hi Andrea,what year did you uncle fled Yugoslavia,did he abandoned Yugoslavia with Germans,Italians,or did he went to fight on to in Russia?
There was a group of Axis collaborators alongside with their families that was killed by Tito in the Blaiburg forest.
