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Today is the Holocaust Memory Day (January 27).

Good opportunity to remember and pay respect to the one of the greatest heroes of WWII.

Diana Budisavljevic is a woman who saved more than 12.000 (11 times as much as Oscar Schindler) mostly Serb kids from certain death in Nazi-Croatian concentration camps in the Nazi Puppet State of Croatia.

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Diana Budisavljević (15 January 1891 - 20 August 1978) was a humanitarian of Austrian descent who led a major relief effort in Yugoslavia during World War II that rescued mostly ethnic Serbian children from the concentration camps operated by the Independent State of Croatia, saving the lives of over twelve thousand.

Born in Innsbruck as Diana Obexer, in 1917 she married Julije Budisavljević, an ethnic Serbian medical doctor[1] who at that time worked as an intern at the surgical clinic in Innsbruck. In 1919, Dr. Budisavljević was appointed professor of surgery at the School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, so the couple moved to Zagreb, at the time in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

World War II

During World War II, Yugoslavia was invaded by the Axis forces in April 1941, when a fascist puppet state called the Independent State of Croatia started a genocidal campaign against the Serbian, Jewish and Roma minorities, setting up numerous concentration camps. After she learned about children held at the camp Lobor-Grad, in October 1941, together with a number of collaborators the most important of whom were Marko Vidaković and Đuro Vukosavljević, she launched a relief campaign named "Action Diana Budisavljević". The Action took care of mostly Serbian children but also women held in various concentration camps including the Jasenovac death camps.

With help from the Agency of the Jewish religious company, her team sent supplies of food, medicines, clothes and also money, first to Lobor-Grad and later to another camp at Gornja Rijeka, both situated north of Zagreb.

Her team also helped the members of the Croatian Red Cross at the main railway station in Zagreb, providing travel supplies for workers in trains that stopped there on their way to Germany - some of those men, women and children returned to Zagreb after they were stopped in Maribor and Linz and were not allowed to travel further due to their illness - they were taken care by the Red Cross and the Action. During that work, in March 1942, Diana Budisavljević met the Headnurse Dragica Habazin, who became a close collaborator in the following months and years in helping the inmates from various camps that were relocated to Zagreb and other places.

At the beginning of July 1942, Diana Budisavljević, with the help from the German officer Albert von Kotzian, obtained written permission to take the children from the Stara Gradiška concentration camp. With the help of the Ministry of Social Affairs, especially prof. Kamilo Bresler, she was able to relocate child inmates from the camp to Zagreb, Jastrebarsko and later also to Sisak. After the rescue efforts in Stara Gradiška, Diana Budisavljević, wearing the uniform of a Red Cross nurse, also took part in the transport of children from Mlaka, Jablanac and Jasenovac. More than 6,000 children had been moved away from those camps by the "Action" in July and August 1942.

After obtaining permission in August 1942 to move the children from the institutions in Zagreb into the care of families, she worked together with the Zagreb Archdiocese branch of the Caritas and in that way made it possible for several thousands of children to be placed with families in Zagreb and rural communities.

Out of 15,536 children that Diana Budisavljević saved, 3,254 children died during the rescue or immediately after leaving the camp, exhausted by torture, hunger and disease, while more than 12,000 rescued children survived the war.

Eleven members of her team were killed during World War II.

On the basis of transport lists and other sources, a card-file of children was made, which by the end of the war contained information of approximately 12,000 children. Upon request by the Ministry of Social Politics in May 1945, she handed over the card-files that she managed for 4 years together with Mrs. Ivanka Džakula.

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