The story of Gizela - Afik Shiraz. Abinun Shmuel

At the end of September, the Italians arrived in our area and stayed there for the rest of 1942. Their presence has brought with an improvement in conditions for us, since they were not anti-Semitic or cruel, and under their existence, we had hardly felt the terror of the war, and yet my parents understood that they should take initiative. My father had a visa to the United States as a salesman of fuel from an American company, and he began to take steps to sell our home to have money for travel and initial capital for life in the new country. But the plans did not go well as the weapons factory, which was across the river, only 100 meters from our house, and anyone, who interested in the purchase, returned to us with a similar answer, "I'm not ready to buy this house. After all, the first place to shell during the war is the weapons factory”. That's how he got off the trip to America, and we continued to live under the Italian rule. Along time, when the Italian’s time to leave Vishegrad came, I happened to be on the scene where they raised the flag daily for the anthem sounds, and one of the Italians soldiers noticed me and were interested in whether I was Jewish. When I replied positive, he said, "Then go to the city officer and arrange everything so that you too will leave”. I told my father about this and he contacted the city officer who did arrange our departure from Vishegrad: We were given a two-locomotive train so we don't have to go into Croatia. The rear locomotive got us where the rails meet and there cut off the two parts of the train, with one part continuing on way to the Ustasha infested area, and we continued to Priboj with the other locomotive.

Next page map was taken from next link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Narrow-Gauge-Railway_Ostbahn_Map_Milena- Preindlsberger-Mrazovic.jpg

The red arrow points to the railway split point.

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