Svjedočenje dvojice jevrejskih zatočenika logora Jasenovac o stradanju Srba

Abstract

Autori ovog rada postavili su sebi za cilj da sakupe raznovrsna i autentična svedočenja i saznanja o stradanju srpskog naroda i pojedinaca u zloglasnom logoru smrti Jasenovac i da ih u sklopu istog rada predstave u celovitoj slici. U pitanju su predstave o stradanju Srba, proizašle iz sećanja dvojice svedoka tih strašnih i ponižavajućih dešavanja, Josipa Erliha i Edvarda Šajera, njihovih jevrejskih sapatnika i sastradalnika, koji su imali tu neobjašnjivo srećnu okolnost da dočekaju oslobođenje od hrvatskih i bosansko-muslimanskih ustaških zločinaca – kraj rata i bezumnog haosa i uspostavljanje mira i poretka, tj. da se spasu neizbežne smrti jasenovačkog logora, probojem, bekstvom, pružanjem otpora, snažnom voljom za životom i potrebom za svedočenjem o nehumanom, brutalnom i sistematskom biološkom uništavanju čitavih naroda. Svedočenja, iako po autentičnosti i uverljivosti drugorazredni izvor podataka, imaju ogroman značaj kad je istorija Holokausta u pitanju i rasvetljavanje svedokovih ličnih doživljaja onih pojava, zbivanja i događaja kojima su prisustvovali, bez obzira na to da li su akteri tih dešavanja bili neznanci, ljudi delimično poznati ili sasvim nepoznati svedocima. Ovom prilikom čitaoci će biti u mogućnosti da se upoznaju sa time kako su dvojica logoraša - Erlih i Šajer, jedni od malobrojnih Jevreja, nekadašnjih jasenovačkih sužanja koji su preživeli Drugi svetski rat, videli, doživeli i zapamtili patnje, sudbinu, stradanje i tragičan položaj Srba, svoje braće u nevolji. Uporednim prikazivanjem dveju varijanti jednih te istih događaja i njihovom svestranom analizom, autori planiraju dokazati objektivnost, istinitost i uverljivost ispričanih sadržaja, čime bi se potvrdila i nepristrasnost i neutralnost u kazivanju ovih dvojice svedoka, a time i potreba za nepotcenjivanjem sekundarnih istorijskih izvora, koji, u nedostatku onih primarnih, mogu i te kako poslužiti za verodostojnu rekonstrukciju segmenata iz prošlosti i dati doprinos sklapanju celovitog (šireg) mozaika istorijske stvarnosti.

The authors of this paper have set an objective to themselves, and this objective consists out of collecting diverse and authentic testimonies and knowledge on the suffering of the Serbian people and individuals in the notorious death-camp of Jasenovac, as well as the presentation of this information in a comprehensive picture. In question are the two representations on the suffering of Serbs that are results of two witnesses' memories of those horrible and humiliating occurrences, the Serbs' Jewish fellow sufferers – Josip Erlih and Edvard Shajer who both had the inexplicably fortunate circumstance to welcome the liberation from the captivity of Croatian and Bosnian Muslims Ustasha criminals – the end of the war and mindless chaos and establishment of peace and order, videlicet the rescue of themselves of the inevitable brutal death of the Jasenovac death-camp by using the method of the breach, escape, resistance and strong will for surviving and the need for testifying on the inhuman, brutal and systematical biological destruction of entire peoples. Testimonies, even though being a secondary source of data by authenticity and credibility, have an enormous importance when the history of the Holocaust comes into question as well as the elucidation of the witnesses' personal experiences of those phenomena and events which they witnessed, irrelevant of that being their own role or that other actors of these occurrences were only surrounding strangers, or people have partially known or even completely unknown witnesses. On the occasion of this paper, the readers will have an opportunity to get a greater insight into the lives of rare Jews who survived the Second World War, and who have seen, experienced and remembered the pain, destiny and suffering as well as the tragic situation of Serbs, their brothers in distress. These two Jews are Erlih and Shajer, the former inmate-prisoners in Jasenovac. By using the comparative representation of the two varieties of the same occurrences, and their versatile analysis, the authors of this work plan to prove the objectivity, truthfulness and credibility of the told contents which would prove the impartiality and neutrality in the words of these two witnesses, and by doing so the non-underestimation of the secondary historical sources which is the lack of the primary ones may serve a lot during the valid reconstruction of the segments from the past and give a contribution to the concluding of the integral/wider mosaic of the historical reality.