List of Jews murdered in Zasavica near Sabac (Serbia)

Introduction by Zvi Bernhardt, Yad Vashem

· General Information About the Lists
· What is in the database
· Acknowledgements
· Searching the Database

General Information About the Lists

This introduction is based on the book Dead-End Journey: The Tragic Story of the Kladovo-Sabac Group, by Dalia Ofer and Hannah Weiner.  This book is the 14th volume of "Studies in the Shoah" published by the University Press of America, Lanham, MD.    This book is a translation of the original, which appeared in Hebrew.   The section on the Jews of Sabac is from Pinkas HaKehillot.   This list combines Holocaust victims from very different backgrounds: Austrian and German Jews and the Sephardic community of Sabac, Serbia.   Both groups suffered the same fate.

The leaders of the Hechalutz Zionist youth organization in Austria decided to organize the last of their people in the training camps to go to Palestine on an "illegal" emigration in November 1939.  A group was organized which included youth from the movement in Austria, Germany and Danzig.   Many other refugees, with no connection to Hechalutz, were added to the group.   The group traveled to Bratislava on 24-25 November, 1939.   In the beginning of December, the group boarded the ship "Uranus".    Their plan was to sail down the Danube River to the Rumanian port of Sulina, near the river’s mouth on the Black Sea, and from there take a ship to Palestine.   From this time on, the group suffered many trials and setbacks.   There were bureaucratic problems that the Mossad l’aliya Bet (organization for illegal immigration) had in procuring a ship to take them from the Black Sea to Palestine, and additional problems caused by the restrictions on aliya made by the British Mandatory regime in Palestine.   Through the whole period, many different Jewish organizations tried to help them continue to Palestine, but to no avail.

The following is a chronology of the Hechalutz group:

Other Information About the Community of Sabac:

Sephardic Jews came to Sabac in the first half of the 19thcentury, where they engaged in trade.   In 1865 two Jews in the town were murdered, a case which brought international Jewish attention and the intervention of foreign consulates.  A synagogue was built in 1895.   In 1940, there were 83 Jews in Sabac.

What is in the Database

There are 1,055 records in the database.  The database has been created from three different lists.  The lists are referred to in the "List References" column by the following initials:

The fields in the database are:

Entries in the "Comments" column include the following information where available:

The following are English translations of the German occupations listed in the file:

German       

English
Beamter  

Civil Servant

Dr.

 

Doctor

Dr. Bez. Arzt

 

Country doctor

Dr. Zahnartzt

 

Dentist, dental surgeon

Drogerist

 

Druggist, pharmacist

Handelsgehilfe

 

Merchant's (clerk's) assistant

Industr.

 

Industrialist

Ingenier

 

Engineer

Kaufmann

 

Merchant, dealer

Pensionär

 

Pensioner,retired

Private

 

Private business entepreneur

Professor

 

Professor

Rabbiner

 

Rabbi

Rentier

 

Rentner means renter.

Schneider

 

Tailor

Schuhm.

 

Shoemaker

Schüler

 

Pupil

Spengler

 

Tinsmith

Student  

Student

Tischlergehelfe

 

Joiner's assistant

Zahntechn.

 

Dental technician, orthodontist

Acknowledgements

The information contained in this database was indexed as part of the data sharing agreement between Yad Vashem and JewishGen’s Research Division.  The data was provided from the files of Yad Vashem (file O 10/12).   This information is accessible to you today thanks to the transcription efforts of Joco Sami Monastirli.  Nolan Altman did the final proofreading of the files.

And finally, thanks to JewishGen Inc. for providing the website and database expertise to make this database accessible. Special thanks to Susan King, Warren Blatt and Michael Tobias for their continued contributions to Jewish genealogy.

Zvi Bernhardt
January, 2004

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