Accident of Fate: A Personal Account, 1938–1945

List of Illustrations

FI viii LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Map of Europe before the Anschluss xiii My parents and my brother Max, 1924 2 My mother, Max, and me, c. 1935 3 Uncle Ferdinand Dénes, c. 1908 5 Uncle Robert on the Italian front during WW I 7 Family gathering on the eve of WW I 8 Max and me, 1933 11 My class photo, 1936 14 Rudolf Beer, who killed himself after the Anschluss 22 Map of my escape route from Vienna, 1938 27 Uncle Robert and Aunt Camilla 30 The boxer Jimmy Lyggett, in a Pabst ilm still 40 The yellow Star of David 47 Dr. Mirko Rechnitzer 51 Map showing the partition of Yugoslavia after the 1941 invasion 52 Ustashe police headquarters, where I was imprisoned 57 Jasenovac death camp 63 Mass grave at Jasenovac, 1942 65 Uncle Oskar on list of deported Jews, Jasenovac, 1942 68 My release form from Jasenovac, 1942 73 General von Glaise-Horstenau with the dictator Pavelić 76 Ustashe document: “Rochlitz [has] not been traced” 77 Map showing my planned escape route from Zagreb to the Italian zone 80 Irene Rochlitz, my mother 87 Map showing route from Split to Novi Vinodolski 89 Mussolini’s authorization of our deportation 93 81118 lim1-14.pdf_out 6/17/114:11 PM K 8 7A ix LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Italian camp near Kraljevica Castle 97 Ceremony marking Croatian adherence to the Axis, Venice, 1941 101 Dispatch from the Italian ambassador to the Vatican, 1942 103 Kraljevica inmates in Italian uniforms, 1942–43 106 Release of inmates from Rab, 1943 116 A trabakula 118 Map of the Lika and Kordun regions of central Croatia 121 Major H. A. “Dude” Hanes, 1943 123 Village of Drenov Klanac 126 Staf of the animal hospital at Kordunsko Zagorje, 1944 133 Serbian villagers recognize themselves in 1944 photo, 1981 133 Treating a horse at the Kordunsko Zagorje animal hospital 137 An 8th Partisan Division pass, 1944 144 With Eva Deutsch 147 Well-clad partisan 150 Partisan women combatants of the 8th Division 151 Partisans dancing the kolo 153 My Hungarian passport, with names of rescued airmen and POW escapees 155 Junius Scales under arrest, 1954 158 Lockheed P-38 and Focke-Wulf 189 163 Crew of American B-24 bomber 165 My Hungarian passport, with names of rescued aircrew 166 With Milić Hajdin, political commissar of my unit 170 With Communist Party oicials in Yugoslavia, 1981 171 Vlado’s signature on my Partisan pass 173 At the entrance to the underground installations of the Partisans’ Petrova Gora hospital, 1981 175 Publicity poster for the ilm The Last Bridge 177 A German Fieseler Storch 179 Allied Forces HQ document showing Randolph Churchill’s appeal on behalf of Jewish refugees 182 With Sir Fitzroy Maclean in Scotland, 1995 183 In Bari, Italy, with brother Max and two uncles, 1945 195 81118 lim1-14.pdf_out 6/17/114:11 PM K 9 FI 81118 lim1-14.pdf_out 6/17/114:11 PM K 10 ...