The Rooster
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The Rooster

Discovering My Father's Memories from the Jasenovac Concentration Camp

  1. 237 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Rooster

Discovering My Father's Memories from the Jasenovac Concentration Camp

About this book

This is the story of a father, as seen through the prism of a daughter's memories of him. The personal story is offset against a greater political context and the destructive impact of nationalism on individuals and their families. It is a tale of survival, resilience and humanity.
The book covers the time that the father, Dragan, spent in a World War II concentration camp set up by the separatist Independent State of Croatia, a Nazi-supported puppet state run by Croatian ultra-nationalists. The camp and the atrocities perpetrated there are still highly contentious issues in contemporary Croatia, Serbia and especially in Bosnia and Hercegovina. The absence of reconciliation over the events in the camp was one of the contributing factors in the disintegration of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, the subsequent Balkan wars and the continued instability of the region today.
The memoir contains the manuscript left by Dragan, in conversation with his daughter Sibel, the author. It is indeed, a deeply personal learning experience about a part of her father that she never knew.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Maps
  4. The Story
  5. A Brief Note on Croatian Pronunciation and Language
  6. Dear Dad
  7. The Manuscript
  8. The Awakening
  9. Dragan and Biserka
  10. War, 1941
  11. The Action
  12. I, Slave
  13. Delirium
  14. Comrade Schwartz
  15. The Tower
  16. Homecoming
  17. Postcards from Dubrovnik
  18. The Child
  19. Arabian Nights
  20. Land of the South Slavs
  21. The Ghibli
  22. Paradise
  23. Paradise Lost
  24. Manhattan
  25. The Americans
  26. Home
  27. War, 1991
  28. The Inquest
  29. The Shoah
  30. The Shadows
  31. The Visit
  32. Suggested Reading
  33. Author’s Note
  34. Acknowledgments
  35. Notes
  36. Index
  37. About the Author