Trafika Europe 7 - Ukrainian Prayer

Quiet Flows the Una

of captain on account of his university education. After a while he deserted the Home Guard and went over to the Partisans. My Grandmother wasknowntopossessperhaps even mystical powers, and her inner strength exercised a powerful suggestion on people she spoke to, who would do what she said without reflection. That was our explanation of how she managed to rescue my grandfather from Jasenovac. Like every true miracle- worker, my Grandmother never spoke about her powers. She used to say that reality was a toy in God’s hands and that people were aided by Allah, to whom she prayed five times every day from when she was eighteen. ‘Man proposes,

high-ranking Muslims in the government of the puppet Independent State of Croatia, Grandmother succeeded in having her husband released from the camp after he had been there for two years. Before that, according to family history, he had been interned for six months at the Stara Gradiška concentration camp, which is mentioned in a song: ‘Jasenovac and Gradiška – the home of Max’s butchers.’ Grandmother’s husband survived the murder- sprees of sadistic Croatian commander Max Luburić and the slaughterhouse of Jasenovac.Her insidercontact saw to it that her husband was transferred to serve in the Croatian Home Guard, where he was given the rank

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