The Holocaust in Croatia

Goldstein, Ivo, Goldstein, Slavko

 

University of Pittsburgh Press

 

Published in Association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

 

October 2016

 

736 pages  

 

The Holocaust in Croatia recounts the history of the Croatian Jewish community during the Second World War with a focus on the city of Zagreb. The authors’ accessible narrative, here available in English for the first time, has been praised for its objectivity, and is complemented by a large bibliography offering an outstanding referential source to archival materials. As such, this book stands as the definitive account of the Jews in Croatia, up to and including the criminal acts perpetrated by the pro-Nazi Ustasha regime, and adds significantly to our knowledge of the Holocaust.

 

Ivo Goldstein is a professor in the faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. Since January of 2013, he has served as the Croatian Ambassador to France.

 

Slavko Goldstein is a writer, publicist, documentary film director, screenwriter, and politician. He was a member of Tito’s partisan units during the Ustasha regime.

 

“Anyone looking for an objective treatment of the Croatian Holocaust need look no further than Ivo and Slavko Goldstein’s The Holocaust in Croatia. Based on extensive archival research, as well as energetic and comprehensive use of contemporary newspaper accounts and secondary sources, this volume, written by two of Croatia’s preeminent historians, tells the story of the Jewish community in Croatia from earliest times up through the Second World War, focusing especially on the Jewish community in Zagreb. This riveting account belongs in every university library.”—Sabrina Petra Ramet, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

 

“At last, this nuanced synthesis of the Jewish community in Zagreb before and during the Holocaust is available in Nikolina Jovanovic’s masterful translation. After a survey of the early twentieth century, the Goldsteins parse the bureaucracy that was put into place by the Croatian fascist state to disenfranchise Zagreb Jews and strip them of their property, their livelihood, their lives. Drawing on thousands of archival documents, they trace the fates of Zagreb’s Jewish families and institutions and capture how the Holocaust played out in this small but important Central European city.”—Ellen Elias-Bursac, prize-winning literary translator

 

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