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Hilda Dajč
Yugoslav-Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim (1922-1942) · Died at 20
Hilda Dajč was a Yugoslav Jewish student whose letters from the Sajmište concentration camp are effectively the only surviving documents written by Jewish prisoners held there. Her letters represent one of the few surviving first-person accounts from German-occupied Serbia during the Holocaust.
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The Belgrade fairgrounds, photographed in 1937, before its conversion into the Sajmište concentration camp.
A page from Dajč's first letter, addressed to Nada Novak, 7 December 1941.
A memorial plaque in Belgrade marking the former residence of Hilda Dajč. It reads: "Here lived Hilda Dajč, born 1922. She volunteered to help at the Jewish Hospital. Staro Sajmište, 1941. Murdered 1942."About this person
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1922 to 1942 · aged 20