About SACRU Serbian-American Civil Rights Unlimited founder
Boris Pribich is a Serbian-American who left Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1954 and
lived in Munich, Germany until 1957. He was born in
1940 in Croatia which was then part of Yugoslavia. For one year during WWII
Boris stayed with
a Croatian family while his mother went to work in Vienna, Austria. For a while
he and his mother were held in a Croatian concentration camp because they were
Serbs until the day when the Germans lined up prisoners to be shot as reprisal
for attacks by Tito's Communist Partisans. Boris and his mother and several other
Serb families were saved by a Croatian teacher who pleaded with Germans assuring them
that these Serbs had no ties to the resistance. Ushering them to safety the teacher
said that he was able to save them because they were dressed like city dwellers.
Then he told them where to get the papers necessary for their safety, begging them
not to reveal his identity if anything went wrong. From there Boris and his
mother went to Belgrade where they lived before the war, and where his father was
now held in a German concentration camp. To be continued. . . .
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