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<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nThe other \u017divko Ivan\u010devi\u0107 is 88 years old, from Lisi\u010dine, Vo\u0107in municipality, and today lives in In\u0111ija with his wife Saveta. They have been married for 67 years. His birth certificate from Vo\u0107in states that he was born on August 28, 1936, to father Ljubomir and mother Smilja, so only recently, when his birth certificate arrived, did he learn that his father\u2019s name was not Ljuboje. He too went through the camp in Sisak, and his mother Smilja was taken to a labor camp in Germany, while his father was killed in Jasenovac. He was also at the Institute for Deaf-Mute Children, from where he was sent to the Forugla\u0161 family across the Drava River, to the village of \u017ddala. But unlike the first \u017divko, who remained Zelenbrz his entire life, his mother found him after the war and brought him back home, to Lisi\u010dine. There he lived and worked in the local Forestry Office until December 13, 1991, when he fled. He then lived in Tenja for six years and worked in a cooperative. After that he moved to Be\u0161ka to live with his younger daughter, and then to In\u0111ija, on the very day of the NATO bombing in 1999.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Which \u017divko is the real one? This one or the one from Diana\u2019s list? Did the person who recorded the saved children make a mistake, or were there two \u017divko Ivan\u010devi\u0107s whose fates were mixed up? Are they perhaps brothers or more distant relatives? All of this could be proven by a DNA analysis, which \u017divko from In\u0111ija, as he confirmed to us, is ready for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI had a brother, Sreta, who died at the age of three, before the war. I don\u2019t know that I had other brothers, but I would like to meet that \u017divko. I am also ready to give blood for analysis, if it will prove that my mother is really my mother, or perhaps to see whether that \u017divko and I are related,\u201d says \u017divko from In\u0111ija.<\/p>\n\n\n\n His life story is also film-like. At the beginning of the war, they fled from the Usta\u0161e from Lisi\u010dine and reached the village of Nova Krivaja, where they were captured. They were transferred to Oku\u010dani, then to Stara Gradi\u0161ka, where both of his grandmothers were killed, and further to Sisak, where he was separated from his mother and sent to Zagreb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI was very ill with typhus, so I did not immediately go to a family in Zagorje, like the others from my group. I waited for the children from Bosnia and was transferred with them to the village of \u017ddala. Paveli\u0107\u2019s wife was from there. I lived there for four years with Ivan and Maru\u0161a Forgula\u0161, until 1946. I went to school. I kept my name and surname, but they took me to the Catholic church, and I threw flowers at Paveli\u0107 at school. Those people took wonderful care of me, and when my mother came back from the camp, I didn\u2019t want to go with her at first. To be honest, I didn\u2019t even recognize my mother. I only know that she cried when she saw me. We had to get used to each other again. These other parents of mine from \u017ddala helped us. They sent piglets and flour, visited me. They offered to be godparents when I got married. They came to the wedding when my older daughter got married, and I went to a wedding of their granddaughter, in Zagreb,\u201d \u017divko recounts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He still remembers that he and his mother lived in great poverty after the war, that they were often hungry, and that his mother was arrested because she did not want to join a cooperative. Recently, he visited her grave in Lisi\u010dine with his daughters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe trip exhausted me, it\u2019s far away, I think that was my last visit,\u201d says \u017divko.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Jasmina Tutunovi\u0107 Trifunov from the Museum of Genocide Victims, employees are currently checking available documents to see whether another child with the same name, surname, and parents\u2019 personal data as \u017divko Ivan\u010devi\u0107, who according to the papers was adopted by the Zelenbrz family, was recorded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt happened that during the copying of various records, errors unintentionally crept in, which still happens today in all databases, especially in wartime circumstances,\u201d our interlocutor says. \u201cWe have already had cases where two children had identical names and surnames, even though they came from different families. That is why it is necessary to carefully check the data, since in the end it always turns out that some detail differs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n There were also examples where one child died and another, with exactly the same name, survived. There were also cases where a person had a twin they did not know about, who was killed or died in the war, and only learned about a brother or sister when they began searching for records. This happened especially with very young children, those born while fleeing or in camps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A collection that might help the Museum of Genocide Victims determine the fate of both \u017divkos is the personal archive of Dragoje Luki\u0107. For three full decades, he dealt with the suffering of children and helped survivors find family members. Luki\u0107 himself, as a war child who survived a camp, searched for his brothers and sisters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If, however, data in the archives cannot be found, \u017divko from In\u0111ija is ready to meet \u017divko from Zagreb and determine through personal experience whether life truly writes novels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u0160TRBAC FIRST MET \u017dIVKO<\/p>\n\n\n\n Savo \u0160trbac from the Documentation and Information Center \u201cVeritas,\u201d who first made contact with \u017divko from In\u0111ija, says that both \u017divkos survived enormous horrors and were fortunate to be taken in and cared for by normal people in abnormal times:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI believe that \u017divko Ivan\u010devi\u0107 from In\u0111ija is the \u2018real\u2019 one, because he has carried that name his entire life. He never had a number. 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