Haris Pasovic News Today

She was the only one in her family to survive the Holocaust, then endured the shelling of her city during the Bosnian war. A documentary chronicled her story.

Members of Sarajevo's Jewish community confirm death of Greta Weinfeld Ferusic, subject of a 1997 acclaimed documentary film, who became her family's lone Auschwitz survivor and who had stayed in Bosnian city during siege in 1990s

After being lone survivor among family members deported to Nazi concentration camp in 1944, she refused to be evacuated from Bosnian city during war in 90s

Greta Weinfeld Ferušić survived both the Nazi death camp and the nearly four-year siege during the Bosnian war

Jasmila Zbanic, who won best director for “Quo Vadis, Aida?”, insists on blaming individuals, not ethnic groups, for atrocities committed as Yugoslavia imploded, a stance that can anger all sides.