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| title | full_name | born | died | nationality | occupation | url |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Josip Frank | Josip Frank | 1844 | 1911 | Croatian | lawyer and politician, a noted representative of the Party of Rights in the Croatian Parliament, and a vocal advocate of Croatian national independence in Austria-Hungary | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josip_Frank |
| David Frankfurter | David Frankfurter | 1909 | 1982 | Croatian | Jew | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Frankfurter |
| Branko Lustig | Branko Lustig | 1932 | 2019 | Croatian | film producer best known for winning Academy Awards for Best Picture for Schindler's List and Gladiator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branko_Lustig |
| Dido Kvaternik | Eugen Dido Kvaternik | 1910 | 1962 | Croatian | Ustaše General-Lieutenant and the Chief of the Internal Security Service in the Independent State of Croatia, a Nazi puppet state during World War II. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dido_Kvaternik |
| Slavko Goldstein | Slavko Goldstein | 1928 | 2017 | Croatian | historian, politician, and fiction writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavko_Goldstein |
| Mira Furlan | Mira Furlan | 1955 | 2021 | Croatian | actress and singer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mira_Furlan |
| Vatroslav Lisinski | Vatroslav Lisinski | 1819 | 1854 | Croatian | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatroslav_Lisinski |
| William Feller | William "Vilim" Feller | 1906 | 1970 | Croatian | mathematician specializing in probability theory | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Feller |
| Alexander family | The Alexander family | null | null | Croatian | prominent Jewish family from Zagreb | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_family |
| Rajko Grlić | Rajko Grlić | 1947 | n/a | Croatian | film director, producer and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajko_Grlić |
| Oscar Nemon | Oscar Nemon | 1906 | 1985 | Croatian | sculptor who was born in Osijek, Croatia, but eventually settled in England | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Nemon |
| Ivan Goran Kovačić | Ivan Goran Kovačić | 1913 | 1943 | Croatian | poet and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Goran_Kovačić |
| Žarko Puhovski | Žarko Puhovski | 1946 | n/a | Croatian | professor, political analyst, philosopher, former president of the Croatian Helsinki Committee | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Žarko_Puhovski |
| Relja Bašić | Relja Bašić | 1930 | 2017 | Croatian | actor, one of the most prolific and versatile Croatian actors with a career which lasted for more than half a century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relja_Bašić |
| Samuel David Alexander | Samuel "Sami" David Alexander | 1862 | 1943 | Croatian | Jewish industrialist, doyen of Croatian industrialists, a philanthropist and a member of the Zagreb prominent Alexander family | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_David_Alexander |
| Ognjen Kraus | Dr. Ognjen Kraus | 1945 | n/a | Croatian | physician, president of the Jewish community Zagreb and the coordinator of the Jewish communities in Croatia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ognjen_Kraus |
| Edmund Moster | Edmund Moster | 1873 | 1942 | Croatian | Jewish entrepreneur, industrialist, inventor and co-founder of the "Penkala-Moster Company" (now TOZ) in Zagreb | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Moster |
| Vinko Brešan | Vinko Brešan | 1964 | n/a | Croatian | film director who emerged into international renown with three critically acclaimed and award-winning films that, each in its own way, broke some of the perceived taboos of Croatian cinema in the 1990s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinko_Brešan |
| Ivan Merz | Ivan Merz | 1896 | 1928 | Croatian | lay academic, beatified by Pope John Paul II on a visit at Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina on June 22, 2003 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Merz |
| Julius Epstein (pianist) | Julius Epstein | 1832 | 1926 | Croatian | Jewish pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Epstein_(pianist) |
| Boris Papandopulo | Boris Papandopulo | 1906 | 1991 | Croatian | composer and conductor of Greek Jewish descent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Papandopulo |
| Alfi Kabiljo | Alfons 'Alfi' Kabiljo | 1935 | n/a | Croatian | composer and musician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfi_Kabiljo |
| Maja Bošković-Stulli | Maja Bošković-Stulli | 1922 | 2012 | Croatian | slavicist and folklorist, literary historian, writer, publisher and an academic, noted for her extensive research of Croatian oral literature | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maja_Bošković-Stulli |
| Branko Horvat | Branko Horvat | 1928 | 2003 | Croatian | economist and politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branko_Horvat |
| Tvrtko Kale | Tvrtko Kale | 1974 | n/a | Croatian | retired-Israeli footballer who played as of July 2015 for Maccabi Kiryat Gat | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tvrtko_Kale |
| Oskar Herman | Oskar Herman | 1886 | 1974 | Croatian | Jewish painter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_Herman |
| Miroslav Šalom Freiberger | Miroslav Šalom Freiberger | 1903 | none | Croatian | chief rabbi, translator, writer and spiritual leader | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miroslav_Šalom_Freiberger |
| Friedrich Salomon Krauss | Friedrich Salomon Krauss | 1859 | 1938 | Croatian | Jewish sexologist, ethnographer, folklorist, and Slavist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Salomon_Krauss |
| Luna Alcalay | Luna Alcalay | 1928 | 2012 | Croatian | pianist, music educator and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_Alcalay |
| Slavko Šajber | Slavko Šajber | 1929 | 2003 | Croatian | politician, football official and former president of the Football Association of Yugoslavia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavko_Šajber |
| Zlatko Bourek | Zlatko Bourek | 1929 | 2018 | Croatian | Jewish film director, screenwriter, production designer, cartoonist and expert on Jewish culture | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zlatko_Bourek |
| Ignjat Fischer | Ignjat Nathan Fischer | 1870 | 1948 | Croatian | architect who was active in Zagreb during the first half of the 20th century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignjat_Fischer |
| Vladimir Šenauer | Vladimir "Geza" Šenauer (Schönauer) | 1930 | 2013 | Croatian | professional footballer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Šenauer |
| Viktor Axmann | Viktor Axmann | 1878 | 1946 | Croatian | architect | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Axmann |
| Radovan Fuchs | Radovan Fuchs | 1953 | n/a | Croatian | scientist and politician serving as Minister of Science and Education in the Government of Croatia since 2020 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radovan_Fuchs |
| Marija Kohn | Marija Kohn | 1934 | 2018 | Croatian | actress | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marija_Kohn |
| Slobodan Lang | Slobodan Lang | 1945 | 2016 | Croatian | physician, professor, diplomat, Member of Parliament, politician and Adviser for Humanitarian Issues of the first Croatian president, Franjo Tuđman | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slobodan_Lang |
| Hugo Ehrlich | Hugo Ehrlich | 1879 | 1936 | Croatian | architect | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Ehrlich |
| Marta Ehrlich | Marta Ehrlich | 1910 | 1980 | Croatian | painter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marta_Ehrlich |
| Andrija Ljudevit Adamić | Andrija Ljudevit Adamić | 1766 | 1828 | Croatian | trader from the City of Fiume (), builder, supporter of economical and cultural development | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrija_Ljudevit_Adamić |
| Stjepan Gomboš | Stjepan Gomboš | 1895 | 1975 | Croatian | Jewish architect responsible for the design of many business and residential buildings throughout the city of Zagreb | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stjepan_Gomboš |
| Marko Rothmüller | Marko Rothmüller | 1908 | 1993 | Croatian | operatic baritone, composer and pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marko_Rothmüller |
| Ivan Rikard Ivanović | Dr. Ivan Rikard Ivanović | 1880 | 1949 | Croatian | industrialist, politician and one of the founders of the Croatian National Progressive Party (NNS) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Rikard_Ivanović |
| Oskar Alexander | Oskar Artur Alexander | 1876 | 1953 | Croatian | academic painter and professor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_Alexander |
| Zvonimir Richtmann | Zvonimir Richtmann | 1901 | 1941 | Croatian | Jewish physicist, philosopher, politician and publicist who was killed during World War II by Ustaše | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zvonimir_Richtmann |
| Živa Kraus | Živa Kraus | 1945 | n/a | Croatian | painter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Živa_Kraus |
| Alfred Albini | Alfred Albini | 1896 | 1978 | Croatian | Jewish architect | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Albini |
| Andrija Hebrang (politician, born 1946) | Andrija Hebrang | 1946 | n/a | Croatian | physician and politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrija_Hebrang_(politician,_born_1946) |
| Mavro Frankfurter | Mavro "Moše" Frankfurter | 1875 | 1942 | Croatian | rabbi from Vinkovci who was murdered during the Holocaust at the Jasenovac concentration camp | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mavro_Frankfurter |
| Vladimir Vuković | Vladimir Vuković | 1898 | 1975 | Croatian | Jewish chess writer, theoretician, player, arbiter, and journalist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Vuković |
| Julio Deutsch | Julio Deutsch | 1859 | 1922 | Croatian | architect known for his architectural art nouveau style | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julio_Deutsch |
| Vilim Herman | Vilim Herman | 1949 | n/a | Croatian | jurist and politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilim_Herman |
| Ivan Rein | Ivan Rein | 1905 | 1943 | Croatian | Jewish painter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Rein |
| Vjekoslav Rosenberg-Ružić | Vjekoslav Rosenberg-Ružić | 1870 | 1954 | Croatian | Jewish composer, conductor and music educator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vjekoslav_Rosenberg-Ružić |
| Slavko Brill | Slavko Brill | 1900 | 1943 | Croatian | Jewish sculptor and ceramics artist born in Nova Gradiška | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavko_Brill |
| Žiga Hirschler | Žiga Hirschler | 1894 | 1941 | Croatian | Jewish composer, music critic and publicist who was killed during the Holocaust | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Žiga_Hirschler |
| Ivana Lang | Ivana Lang | 1912 | 1982 | Croatian | composer, pianist and piano teacher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivana_Lang |
| Ivica Hiršl | Ivica "Ivina" Hiršl | 1905 | 1941 | Croatian | communist and Mayor of Koprivnica who was killed during the Holocaust | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivica_Hiršl |
| Zora Dirnbach | Zora Dirnbach | 1929 | 2019 | Croatian | Jewish journalist and writer, born in Osijek on 22 August 1929 to a Jewish father and Austrian-born Catholic mother who converted to Judaism in 1922 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zora_Dirnbach |
| Rudolf Lubinski | Rudolf Lubinski | 1873 | 1935 | Croatian | State Archives building on Marulić Square in Zagreb | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Lubinski |
| Thea Altaras | Thea Altaras | 1924 | n/a | Croatian | architect who was known by her research and publications on Jewish monuments in Hesse, Germany | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thea_Altaras |
| Edo Šen | Edo Šen (born Edo Schön; 1877–1949) | 1877 | 1949 | Croatian | Jewish architect notable for creating the foundation of the modern Croatian architecture | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edo_Šen |
| Vera Fischer (sculptor) | Vera Fischer | 1925 | 2009 | Croatian | sculptor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Fischer_(sculptor) |
| Šandor Alexander | Šandor Alexander pl. Sesvetski | 1866 | 1929 | Croatian | nobleman, industrialist, philanthropist, younger brother of Samuel David Alexander and member of the Zagreb prominent Alexander family | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Šandor_Alexander |
| Boris Braun | Boris Braun | 1920 | 2018 | Croatian | University professor, Holocaust survivor and member of the Jewish community in Zagreb | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Braun |
| Daniel Ivin | Daniel Ivin | 1932 | 2021 | Croatian | writer, politician and human rights activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ivin |
| Vladimir Goldner | Vladimir Goldner | 1933 | 2017 | Croatian | physician, academic and professor at the School of Medicine, University of Zagreb | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Goldner |
| Dragan Plamenac | Dragan Plamenac | 1895 | 1983 | Croatian | Jewish composer and musicologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragan_Plamenac |
| Dragutin Wolf | Dragutin Wolf | 1866 | 1927 | Croatian | Jewish industrialist and founder of the food company Koestlin in Bjelovar | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragutin_Wolf |
| Stella Skopal | Stella Skopal | 1904 | 1992 | Croatian | Jewish sculptor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stella_Skopal |
| Slavko Wolf | Dr. Slavko Wolf | 1862 | 1936 | Croatian | lawyer, chess player and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavko_Wolf |
| Alfred Müller (entrepreneur) | Alfred Müller | 1938 | 1888 | Croatian | entrepreneur and the oldest son of Adolf Müller | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Müller_(entrepreneur) |
| Aleksandar Savić | Aleksandar Savić | 1923 | n/a | Croatian | communist activist and member of the partisan resistance movement in Croatia, murdered during the Holocaust in the Independent State of Croatia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandar_Savić |
| Sacha Pecaric | Sacha Pecaric | 1965 | n/a | Croatian | born rabbi | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacha_Pecaric |
| Vladimir Vranić | Vladimir Vranić | 1896 | 1976 | Croatian | mathematician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Vranić |
| Lea Deutsch | Lea Deutsch | 1927 | 1943 | Croatian | Jewish child actress who was murdered in the Holocaust | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lea_Deutsch |
| Nenad Porges | Nenad Porges | 1946 | n/a | Croatian | politician, businessman, entrepreneur and former Minister of Economy, Labour and Entrepreneurship | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nenad_Porges |
| Luciano Moše Prelević | Rabbi Luciano Moše Prelević | 1953 | n/a | Croatian | rabbi of the Jewish community in Zagreb and chief rabbi of the Montenegro Jewish community | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciano_Moše_Prelević |
| Šime Spitzer | Šime Spitzer | 1892 | 1941 | Croatian | Zionist, notable member of the Jewish community Zagreb and general secretary of the "Federation of Jewish confessional communities of Yugoslavia" (Savez jevrejskih vjeroispovjednih općina Jugoslavije - SJVOJ) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Šime_Spitzer |
| Slavko Hirsch | Dr. Slavko Hirsch | 1893 | 1942 | Croatian | physician, founder and director of the Epidemiological Institute in Osijek | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavko_Hirsch |
| Rod Riffler | Rod Riffler | 1907 | 1941 | Croatian | modern dance teacher, choreographer and owner of a dance school in Zagreb, who was killed during the Holocaust | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Riffler |
| Drago Štajnberger | Drago Štajnberger | 1916 | 1942 | Croatian | Jewish Partisan and a People's Hero of Yugoslavia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drago_Štajnberger |
| Hinko Bauer | Hinko Bauer | 1908 | 1986 | Croatian | Jewish architect | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinko_Bauer |
| Amiel Shomrony | Amiel Shomrony | 1917 | 2009 | Croatian | Holocaust survivor, who served as secretary of Zagreb's chief rabbi Miroslav Šalom Freiberger during World War II. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiel_Shomrony |
| Jasminka Domaš | Jasminka Domaš | 1948 | n/a | Croatian | Jewish writer, journalist and scientist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasminka_Domaš |
| Jakov Bienenfeld | Jakov Bienenfeld | 1948 | 2016 | Croatian | entrepreneur and developer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakov_Bienenfeld |
| Lujo Györy | Lujo Györy | 1930 | 2012 | Croatian | handball player, referee and official | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lujo_Györy |
| Magda Bošković | Magda Bošković | 1914 | 1942 | Croatian | communist, Partisan and member of the women's rights movement | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magda_Bošković |
| Zdenka Rubinstein | Zdenka Rubinstein | 1911 | 1961 | Croatian | Jewish operatic soprano | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zdenka_Rubinstein |
| Vera Dajht-Kralj | Vera Dajht-Kralj | 1928 | 2014 | Croatian | sculptor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Dajht-Kralj |
| Jakob Altaras | Prof. Dr. Jakob Altaras | 1918 | n/a | Croatian | physician and president of the Jewish community Giessen | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Altaras |
| Jadranko Crnić | Jadranko Crnić | 1928 | 2008 | Croatian | lawyer who served as the 1st President of the Constitutional Court of Croatia between 1991 and 1999 and president of the Croatian Red Cross | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jadranko_Crnić |
| Aleksandar Goldštajn | Prof. dr. Aleksandar Goldštajn | 1912 | 2010 | Croatian | prominent university professor, law scholar, writer and constitutional court judge | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandar_Goldštajn |
| Mirko Hermann | Mirko Hermann | 1868 | 1927 | Croatian | industrialist, businessman and member of the Freemasonry in Osijek, Croatia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirko_Hermann |
| Maja Ruth Frenkel | Maja Ruth Frenkel | 1971 | n/a | Croatian | entrepreneur and former deputy of Croatian Minister of Economy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maja_Ruth_Frenkel |
| Izidor Gross | Izidor Gross | 1860 | 1942 | Croatian | chess master and hazzan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izidor_Gross |
| Viktor Rosenzweig | Viktor Rosenzweig | 1914 | 1941 | Croatian | Jewish communist, poet and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Rosenzweig |
| Herman Ehrlich | Herman Ehrlich | 1836 | n/a | Croatian | architect and businessman | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Ehrlich |
| Vera Stein Ehrlich | Vera Stein Ehrlich | 1897 | 1980 | Croatian | social anthropologist who gave a significant scientific contribution to the development of anthropology in Croatia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Stein_Ehrlich |
| Stjepan Betlheim | Stjepan Betlheim | 1898 | 1970 | Croatian | psychiatrist and psychoanalyst | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stjepan_Betlheim |
| Elly Bašić | Gabriela "Elly" Lerch Bašić | 1908 | 1998 | Croatian | music pedagogue and pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elly_Bašić |
| Leon Geršković | Dr. Leon Geršković | 1910 | 1992 | Croatian | Jewish lawyer, legal scholar and politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Geršković |
| Melita Švob | Melita Švob | 1931 | n/a | Croatian | Jewish biologist, scientist and historian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melita_Švob |
| Eugen Miskolczy | Eugen Miskolczy | 1907 | 1947 | Croatian | physician, partisan and major in the Yugoslav People's Army | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugen_Miskolczy |
| Arnold Kohn | Arnold Kohn | 1905 | 1984 | Croatian | Zionist, longtime president of the Jewish community Osijek and Holocaust survivor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Kohn |
| Eugen Viktor Feller | Eugen Viktor Feller | 1871 | 1936 | Croatian | pharmacist, entrepreneur and pioneer of the industrial drug production in Croatia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugen_Viktor_Feller |
| Salamon Berger | Salamon Berger Ouz | 1858 | 1934 | Croatian | Jewish industrialist, textile trader, and founder and first director of the Ethnographic Museum in Zagreb | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salamon_Berger |
| Aleksandar Licht | Dr. Aleksandar Licht | 1884 | 1948 | Croatian | Zionist leader and founder of the Zionist movement in Croatia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandar_Licht |
| Ignjat Granitz | Ignjat Granitz | 1845 | 1908 | Croatian | Jewish industrialist, philanthropist and publisher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignjat_Granitz |
| Felix Mandl | Felix Mandl | 1898 | unknown | Croatian | businessman and entrepreneur | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Mandl |
| Bertold Eisner | Bertold Eisner | 1875 | 1956 | Croatian | Jewish law professor at the University of Zagreb, pioneer of the Croatian Jurisprudence and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertold_Eisner |
| Miroslav Juhn | Miroslav Juhn | 1897 | 1941 | Croatian | Jewish publicist and politician, and a leading figure of the Praxis School | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miroslav_Juhn |
| Oskar David Ginsberger | Oskar David Ginsberger | 1896 | 1979 | Croatian | physician (dermatovenerologist) and Partisan member during World War II. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_David_Ginsberger |
| Ivana Hirschmann | Ivana Hirschmann | 1866 | 1943 | Croatian | gymnastics professor and the first female physical education teacher in Croatia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivana_Hirschmann |