- Greta Ferusic
Greta Ferusic is a retired professor of architecture at the
University of Sarajevo and survivor ofAuschwitz and theSiege of Sarajevo . [cite web
last = Ferusic
first = Greta
title = Unafraid of War
publisher = Newsweek
date = 1999-03-15
url = http://www.newsweek.com/id/87615
accessdate =2008-01-23 ]"Greta was the only one of her family to survive the Holocaust. After the war, she studied architecture at the University of Sarajevo and was the first woman to graduate. Later she became the Architecture School's first female dean. Refusing to be dislocated when the siege of Sarajevo began in April, 1992, Greta and her husband shared in the fate of their city."
In 1997,
Haris Pašović produced and directed a biographical film "Greta" about her. [cite web
title = Greta Ferusic
work = Some Jewish Films and Videos
publisher = Jewfilm, Larry Mark
url = http://members.aol.com/jewfilm/jz6.html
accessdate =2008-01-23 ] [cite web
title = Greta Ferusic
publisher = San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
url = http://www.sfjff.org/public_html/sfjff17/programs/p0721b.html
accessdate =2008-01-23 ]In February 2004 Ferusic was awarded the Polish Auschwitz Cross (
Krzyż Oświęcimski ). [cite web
last = Gitelman
first = Zvi
title = American Jewish Yearbook 2004
publisher = AJC
url = http://www.ajcarchives.org/AJC_DATA/Files/2004_11_CentralEastEurope.pdf
format = pdf
accessdate =2008-01-23 ]ources
* [http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0302/rr13.html quotation]
* [http://www.sfjff.org/sfjff17/programs/p0721b.html Biography in Jewish Film festival]
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