Personal Fonds – Sara-Vukica Kajon-Stupar

Collection

Holding institution (official language):: Јеврејски историјски музеј (Jevrejski istorijski muzej)

Scope and content:: The collection comprises objects, documents and photographs: Memory book of Bukica Kajon dated 1923; photographs of the Kajon family, 1906-1930; professional work of Sara Vukica Kajon Stupar, 1935-1942; the fate of the Kajon family after the German bombing of Sarajevo, April 1941 to 1945; book of pharmaceutical prescriptions, photographs of objects, medals, orders, decorations.

Archival history:: The records of Sara Vukica Kajon Stupar were compiled, classified and catalogued by her son Zoran Rikov, who handed them over to the Jewish Historical Museum in 2019.

Administrative/biographical history:: Sara Vukica Kajon Stupar was born in Višegrad on 20 October 1911, to father Isak and mother Hana, née Levi. She completed elementary school in Višegrad and high school in Sarajevo. She graduated from the Faculty of Pharmacy in Zagreb and got her first job in Sarajevo, where she married her first husband, Nikola Rikov, a lieutenant in the army of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. During the occupation of Yugoslavia, she lived in various places, moved from Sarajevo to Višegrad, Mostar, Prijepolje and Berane, and in 1943 she joined the national liberation forces. During WWII, her parents, two aunts and many members of the family were killed. After the war, she worked in Sarajevo, as an active member of the Yugoslav People's Army, and then as the head of all Sarajevo pharmacies until 1960, when she moved to Belgrade. In Belgrade, she married Voja Stupar. She worked in the military pharmacy until her retirement.