Jevrejski Narodni Kalendar 5701 [“Jewish Almanac for the Year 1940-41.”] Edited by David Levi-Dale and Alexander Klein.

(YUGOSLAVIA).

Slobada

Belgrade

1940

Text in Bosnian and with some use of Hebrew. Illustrated. Community news and statistics and with many local commercial advertisements. With photographic portrait of King Peter II of Yugoslavia.

A final glimpse of Jewish life in Yugoslavia immediately prior to the Holocaust. By April 1941, Nazi-Germany had occupied all of Yugoslavia and divided it into different administrative sectors. The mortal fate of Jews hinged on which territory they now found themselves in.