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Article: JDC EVACUATES 350 FROM SARAJEVO IN A HARROWING 22-HOUR BUS TRIP
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- November 16, 1992
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Michele Chabin
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
11-16-1992
JDC EVACUATES 350 FROM SARAJEVO IN A HARROWING 22-HOUR BUS TRIP.
SPLIT, Croatia, Nov. 15 (JTA)--"You see these two suitcases?" asked Vahiva Biscevic, sitting on a crowded bus traveling from Sarajevo to this city on the Adriatic coast. "This is all I have to show for 70 years of my life."
Biscevic, a dignified woman with sad eyes, was one of the 350 Jewish, Moslem, Serbian and Croatian refugees the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee managed to evacuate Saturday from the war-ravaged capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The evacuation, a sometimes-harrowing 22-hour bus trip through territory claimed by warring ethnic factions, left the ...