[wzslider autoplay=”true”]Smilja Kvasina, Milena Marković and Vid Čop were posthumously awarded with the ” Righteous Among the Nations ” award because they saved Jewish Hana Altarac during the Holocaust in Sarajevo.
Hana Altarac, who changed her name to Fanika Lučić, grew up in the house of Smilja Kvasina and her daughter Milena Marković, sharing their modest means.
Considering her age, Lučić does not remember all the details of her youth and all the events during the Holocaust, but believes that she survived thanks to these good people.
At today’s award ceremony of ” Righteous Among the Nations ” in Sarajevo, Lučić retold of the day when she was returning home from school and was met on the way by her cousin Bjanka, who told her that her entire family had been taken away and that she must not go home, or she would experience the same.
“I was crying, I wanted to go home, I bought bread in a lovely bakery near the Cathedral and brought it to eat. But my cousin would not let me go and she took me to her house,” she said.
She lived there with Bjanka and her husband Vid Čop for some time. When she went outside again for the first time, she met her classmate Milena who told her that she could not stay in her cousin’s house because it was too risky and that she would have to go to her house.
“She told me that she had been looking for me in the city for a long time, because she knew what was happening to the Jews. I went to her place; she lived with her mother. The two of them were living alone,” recalled Lučić.
They lived modestly, she said, adding that shortly after her arrival Smilja was taken away as well. Lučić believes that it was not because of her, but she does not know the real reason.
As far as she remembers, she and Milena later lived alone but she forgot the details.
(Source: klix.ba)