Accident of Fate: A Personal Account, 1938a 1945 (Life Writing Series) / MIT WIDMUNG von Imre Rochlitz

Rochlitz, Imre and Joseph Rochlitz:

ISBN 10: 1554582679 / ISBN 13: 9781554582679

Published by WILFRID LAURIER UNIV PR, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Accident of Fate: A Personal Account, 1938a 1945 (Life Writing Series) / MIT WIDMUNG von Imre Rochlitz
• Publisher: WILFRID LAURIER UNIV PR
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1554582679
• ISBN 13: 9781554582679
• Binding: Softcover/Paperback
• Weight: 450 grams
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • 1- Alle Bücher-VARIA

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Synopsis

Accident of Fate is a first-hand account of persecution, rescue, and resistance in the Axis-occupied former Yugoslavia. At the age of thirteen, Imre Rochlitz fled to Yugoslavia from his childhood home in Vienna following the Nazi Anschluss, leaving his family behind. In January 1942 the Ustashe (Croatian Fascists) arrested and interned him in the Jasenovac death camp, where he dug mass graves. On the verge of death, Rochlitz was released due to the extraordinary intervention of a Nazi general. He escaped to the Adriatic coast, where he and several thousand other Jewish refugees were protected by the army of Fascist Italy. After Italy's surrender, he joined Tito's Partisans, becoming an officer and army veterinarian, and rescued dozens of downed Allied airmen. In 1945, he fled Yugoslavia's Communist regime and reached liberated southern Italy. In 1947, at the age of twenty-two, he emigrated to the United States.

With unique personal photographs and documents supporting the text, this eyewitness narrative covers little-known topics and provides a revealing historical account of the period. The book helps clarify and render accessible the complexities and contradictions of conflict and genocide in wartime Yugoslavia.

About the Author

Imre Rochlitz was born in Budapest in 1925 but he spent his childhood in Vienna, where he lived until 1938. After surviving the war years in Yugoslavia, he emigrated to the United States and earned a law degree at New York University. He moved back to Europe in 1958. Encouraged by his family, he made a return trip to Yugoslavia in 1981, which sparked the writing of these memoirs.

Joseph Rochlitz is an opera and film director. He collaborated in the research and writing of Accident of Fate and based his documentary film The Righteous Enemy, about the Italian protection of thousands of Jews during the Holocaust, on his father's story.