Survived malaria in Dachau
Križmanić Josip was born on March 16th in 1926 in village Gologorica - middle Istria. He lived in a peasant‘s family with his seven brothers. He was a farmer himself. Istria was at that time under the rule of Italy so he was recruited to the Italian army. After the fall of Italy he joined the Partisan troops. On 26 January 1944, after the German roundup, he was taken with his father and other fellow villagers into the Coroneo prizon of Triest and than deported to Dachau. The Germans used to conduct medical experiments on him. He spent a month in high fever. He was infected with malaria on purpose and still remembers the bitterness of quinine. After he lived through the experiments, he received a document which spared him from the hard work, but testifies plenty of horrors. During his stay in the camp, he finds out that his father passed away in the camp nearby while digging through the underground tunnels. The Americans set him free on 25 April 1945 and after eighteen days Josip returns home. With a few locals ,in summer of 1948. agreed to run a way so they arrange the escape with the man from Zminj to help them. When they pay him, he cheated them and took them directly to the police. 500 meters before entering the village they have been caught by police and taken to jail, first in Pazin and Buzet and later to the penal camp. Josip was sent to prison in Zagreb. While pimped them to the prison all were tied until they reached the station - Disciplinary Battalion in Vrapče, Zagreb.