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German POW ID from the base camp Sajmiste, for a detainee No 74757, Ostoja Palija, born on April 10, 1922 in Slabinja , Orthodox Christian, father Pero, mather’s surname Bosijočić, Nationality - Croat (Serb) , Profession in civic life - plumber , rang – detainee, caught on June 26.1942, healthy.
After surviving typhoid in Sajmište, Ostoja Palija was sent to a Concentration camp in Germany, and then to Norway, when the British Army liberated survivors in 1945 
Backside of POW ID of Ostoja Palija, father of our interviewee Petar Palija
Christmas tree in the Leipzig Spinning and wool workshop where the mother of Petar Palija, Darinka, was working and living with children till mid of 1943, when she was sent back due to tuberculosis. 
Belgrade, August 29, 1943, Petar (wearing s cap) with his mother Darinka, and his sisters Nada and Mira, and two children of the families godfather living in Belgrade 
Back side of the potograph sent to father Ostoja, to concentration camp in Norway, informs him that the two elder children, Nada and Petar, started to go to school in Belgrade
Petar’s letter to father in Norway, sent from Belgrade address (Durmitorska 3):
Dear Dad,
We have received your letter, which brought a lot of joy to us.
Nada and I are going to school. Don’t worry about us. Everything is fine with us.
Just keep yourself so you could endure all of it. May the good Lord will help you get there.
Those will be happy days. With love,
Your son Pero
Petar’s sister Nada wrote to father in Norway.
Dear Dad,
Pero and I are good students. Keka (the youngest sister Miraćs nick name) is also learning to write,
so she could write a big letter to you soon.
She said that she wants write to you to come back as soon as the war is finished.
Me, Mom, Pero and Keka, we are all looking forward to see you. Sending you kisses,
Your daughter Nada
(In small letters on the bottom:The others are greeting you. Greetings from Bosa and Brana )
Photographs from the German concentration camp in Norway, after the British Army liberated it and provided recovery to survivors -- Petars’ father Ostoja Palija
Ostoja Palija (left, no cap) with his fellows survivors, waiting in Norway for transportattion to the South
Ostoja Palija, liberated but still in Norway
Group of survivors from Norway
Group of survivors from Norway (Ostoja Palija, first from left, standing)
The official document, issued by District Office of Bosanska Dubica, on August 21, 1936, allowing Ostoja Palija to do his locksmith trade and to run his own locksmith workshop, which was registered in the Registry of trade under number 25, all in accord with the Workshop Act of Kingdom of Yugoslavia.