"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.
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