STORY
OF PINTO BROTHERS
Beno-Bencion Pinto, their grandmother Dona Katan, and
brother Bato-Simon Pinto. Photo from the prewar period.
Tilda i Solomon Pinto roditelji, baba i deda su bili Dona
i Simon Pinto, braća rodjena u Sarajevu 1924, 1928.
During their WWII captivity on the Italian occupied
island of Brac, at Postira and Milna they published handwritten funny news
magazines.
Milna 1942 - 1943 "Naš svijet"
pogledaj tekstove koji su izlazili u Nasem svijetu
"BROD BEZ LUKE"
POSTIRA 1943
Novine:
Prema Batinim secanjima, sa njima je na uredjivanju novina
radio i Eli Kahon, koji je nazalost po oslobodjenju Raba, pao u ruke nemcima i
poslat u Ausvic.
Oba brata su uradila Alija 1949 i 1950, ozenili se u
Izraelu, dobili decu i tamo ostvarili profesionalnu karijeru.
Bata je umro 1989, a Beno 1985. Njihovi sinovi Yosi i Dori su nam decembra 2024
napisali par reci o njihovim zivotnim putevima u Izraelu.
Yosi wrote:
My father Benzion (Beno) Pinto, was born in 1924.
After the liberation of the Rab concentration camp in Sep.
1943, he joined the partisans and participated in the fighting until the end of
the war in 1945. As a partizan, he was also active in some wall newspaper
presented among the fighters.
After the war, he studied to become a technician as well as writing some sport’s
journalism in Sarajevo. Beno made Alia in 1949 to Jerusalem. He lived with his
father, Prof Solomon Pinto, until he got married to Ela Pinto (Danity)
in 1957, also from Sarajevo, who brought her 5-year-old daughter Tilda (from her
first marriage). We were raised together from my birth
in 1958 as brother and sister.
Beno worked always in Arial Photography Mapping (drawing topographical maps from
aerial photographs) - initially at the Institute of Photogrammetry and later in
a private company.
Beno passed away in April 1985, after 5 years of suffering from leukemia.
He had a great sense of humor… he and my mother lived a quite happy life, very
closely with his brother Shimon (Bato) Pinto and his family and a wide group of
Yugoslavian friends who have met at least once a week and a lot of holidays and
vacations.
Dori wrote:
My father Simon-Shimon (Bato) Pinto was born in 1928. After the
liberation of the Rab concentration camp, he did not join the partisans as a
fighter like his brother Beno,
because he was young,
but was with his parents in the areas controlled by Tito's partisans and under
their protection. After transferring to Italy, he returned to Sarajevo at the
end of the war. Before immigrating to Israel, he managed to study architecture
for almost two years at the University of Zagreb.
He immigrated to
Israel in 1949. In 1950 he married Ester-Erna (Nena) Musafija, also from
Sarajevo. They had two children. My sister was born in 1952 and I in 1958. My
father was an architect, first he was an employee and then he owned an
independent office. He lived in Jerusalem and died in 1989.
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All the presented material is provided under the permission of Yosi and Dori
Pinto and the original material is held by Yosi Pinto.
We are indebted for their generosity
to share these private moments with us.
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