Table of Contents
Accident of Fate: A Personal Account, 1938-1945 by Imre Rochlitz and Joseph Rochlitz

List of Illustrations

Preface

Prologue: Vienna

1. Anschluss

2. Zagreb

3. Invasion

4. Prison

5. Jasenovac

6. Release and Escape

7. Split

8. Novi

9. Kraljevica

10. Rab

11. Lika

12. Joining the Partisans

13. Veterinarian

14. A Communist Regime

15. Friendships and Hardships

16. Airmen

17. Seventh Offensive

18. The Captain and the Commissar

19. Vlado

20. Departure

Epilogue

Acknowledgements

Appendix

Glossary of Names and Places

Selected Bibliography

Index

A first-hand account of persecution, rescue, and resistance in the Axis-occupied former Yugoslavia. With unique personal photographs and documents supporting the text, this eyewitness narrative covers little-known topics and provides a revealing historical account of the period.

Imre Rochlitz was born in Budapest in 1925 but he spent his childhood in Vienna, where he lived until 1938. After surviving the war years in Yugoslavia, he emigrated to the United States and earned a law degree at New York University. He moved back to Europe in 1958. Encouraged by his family, he made a return trip to Yugoslavia in 1981, which sparked the writing of these memoirs.