Judita Jovanovic’s father Zoltan Biro with friends near Strazilovo Hill

Judita Jovanovic’s father Zoltan Biro with friends near Strazilovo Hill

My father Zoltan Biro (on the right) with some friends on an excursion near Strazilovo Hill, near Belgrade in 1932 or 1933. 

My father finished his first year at the University of Zagreb and then transferred to the University of Belgrade, because his father had planned to retire and to move to Belgrade that year. However, Grandfather's retirement was pushed back one year, so Father spent his second university year in the King Alexandar dormitory in Belgrade on Revolution Boulevard. The next year his parents were in Belgrade and he lived with them in their apartment on Charlie Chaplin Street. During his studies, my father was an active member of the leftist students’ organization, but I do not know whether he was a member of the Communist Party before the war.

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