Jeremić 's paternal grandfather , Bogoljub , was an officer in the Royal Yugoslav Army . In April 1941 , at the height of World War II , he was captured by the Germans during the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia and imprisoned , first at Matthausen and then at Dachau . He returned to Yugoslavia by foot , only to be arrested as a political dissident by the country 's new communist authorities and jailed at the Goli Otok prison camp , where he spent the next five years . Through his mother , Jeremić stems from the prominent Pozderac family , widely considered the most influential Bosnian Muslim political dynasty in post-war Yugoslavia . Jeremić 's maternal great-grandfather , Nurija Pozderac , was a prominent Bosnian Muslim politician in Depression-era Yugoslavia . A staunch anti-fascist , he joined Josip Broz Tito 's Partisans in the early 1940s and was killed in action in 1943 . Nurija and his wife Devleta were posthumously declared Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem for saving Jews during The Holocaust , and Jeremić accepted a medal and certificate identifying them as such at a ceremony in Belgrade in November 2012 . According to survivors , the couple sheltered Jews who snuck out of a train destined for the Jasenovac concentration camp , which was operated by Croatia 's fascist ruling party , the Ustaše . Pozderac 's nephews Hamdija and Hakija featured prominently in Yugoslav political circles during the 1980s
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