Isak Danon: Attack on the Synagogue in Split

First Person Podcast by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Jun 30, 2009Society & Culture

Isak Danon discusses the attack on the synagogue in his hometown of Split, Yugoslavia, in the summer of 1942. Germany had invaded Yugoslavia in April 1941, and shortly after Split was occupied by the Italians, allied to...

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