For the Jewish Diamant family, having Tito as a godfather was worthless; they were expelled from Teslić in '93.

In 1992, nearly 30,000 Bosniaks and Croats were expelled from Teslić by the army and police of Republika Srpska, almost half of the total population of this municipality in central Bosnia, writes the Bosnian news agency Patria.

Moreover, Bosniaks and Croats were not only expelled from their homes; hundreds of them were taken to camps where they were first abused and then killed. Because of this, trials are currently being conducted before the International Court in The Hague and the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina against several members of the RS army, who are charged with crimes against humanity in Teslić and neighboring municipalities such as Doboj, Derventa, and others.

The most famous trial for crimes against humanity in this part of Bosnia, conducted before the Court of BiH, is the one concerning the notorious unit "Miće," responsible for the rape, abuse, and killing of hundreds of non-Serb civilians, as well as some Serbs.

Among the thousands of expelled were the only two Jewish families from Teslić who lived there until the 1990s: the Glancers and the large Jewish family Diamant.

Viktor Glancer, a high school professor in Teslić, was taken away by the RS police in June 1992. His bones were found a few years ago in a pit on Mount Borja, along with about twenty other remains of non-Serb civilians.

Forensic examination determined that Viktor, while still alive, had his ribs broken and part of his head smashed with a club or some other hard object. The bodies found with his were also mutilated, and some had gunshot wounds to the head.

The Jews of Teslić, with the Diamant family alone having 11 children, are now scattered around the world and rarely visit their hometown. The youngest Diamant had Josip Broz Tito himself as his godfather, but that did not help him much, and he had to flee for his life from the army of Republika Srpska.

A Patria interlocutor, who agreed to speak on condition of anonymity and is a member of one of the two Jewish families from Teslić, says she sometimes stops by her hometown and meets people on the street who behaved very badly toward her family when the arrests of the non-Serb population began in Teslić.

Some of those people, she says, worked with her husband until the 1990s. When the bloodshed began on the streets and in the homes of Teslić, the same people were very cruel to her family. Today, she says, they would like to greet her again, but she does not want that.