Oral History Interview with Daniel Levey

Daniel Levey, born on April 24, 1925 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, discusses his Sephardic family; speaking Ladino at home; childhood memories of pre-war life; poverty; anti-Jewish animosity from Muslims; his father, a tailor, served in World War I under the Ottoman Empire; the Nazis attacking in April 1941; forced labor at a military camp in Novus Sarajevo; assignment to a skilled labor brigade because of electrical experience, avoiding registration by the Nazis; ceasing to wear the star; traveling to Mostar to find family; working for Tito’s partisans for a few months in 1942; his arrest and imprisonment at Mamula, an Italian prison, for seven months; his release; joining fellow Jews in Rab; kitchen assignment aiding his survival; liberation in September 1943; working in a hospital; living post-war in Italy; immigrating to Canada in 1948; and immigrating to the United States.

Date: 04/14/2008
Interviewer: Patricia (Patty) Rich
Interviewee: Daniel Levey
Language: English
Subject: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
World War, 1939-1945--Jews.
Location: Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Otočić Mamula, Montenegro
Arbe concentration camp
Sicily, Italy
Milan, Italy
Rome, Italy
Florence, Italy
Canada
USA
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