22-11-21, 14:26
|
#47
|
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 50,326
Thanks: 28,747
Thanked 14,428 Times in 10,234 Posts
|
re: NAZIS GLOBAL Increase: Recruiting From Military & Police
The Austrian Woman Who Saved 7,700 Children From NAZIS During WW2
BBC News 22 NOV 2021
Diana Budisavljević was a well-to-do Austrian married to a renowned doctor in Zagreb when the Axis forces invaded Yugoslavia in April 1941. Soon, a puppet state installed by the Nazis began a genocidal campaign against Serbs, Jews and Roma, setting up concentration camps in Croatia.
When she learned that children in camps not far from the city were dying of hunger and disease, she resolutely started one of the greatest humanitarian actions of WW2.
Dianas’ Children
“Dianas’ Children” is a story of a woman who saved more than 7,500 Serbian children from the Ustashi concentration camp Jasenovac in the Independent State of Croatia. Diana Obexer Budisavljević, an Austrian woman marred to a Serb, organised the largest relief operation for saving children in World War II.
A German Oskar Schindler saved the lives of more than 1,000 Polish Jews. Irena Sendler organised a campaign to rescue approximately 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto, and Diana Budisavljević saved more than 7,500 Serbian children from certain death. On the grounds of Jasenovac Camp Complex, the largest of its kind in the Balkans, 19,433 Serbian, Jewish and Roma children were killed.
“Diana’s Children” is a story of compassionate people in the hardest of times.
The documentary film “Diana’s Children” was filmed in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria and Serbia. It features former inmates of Jasenovac and eminent historians and scholars of the World War II period. Every one of Diana’s children was found in the available documents and files of Diana Budisavljević, which made it possible to tell the story of this relief campaign through very different fates of these former little inmates.
|
|
|