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Encyclopedia > Croatian Righteous Among the Nations

This is the list of Croatian Righteous Among the Nations. More than one hundred Croatians have been honored with this title by the state of Israel for saving Jews during WWII. Righteous Among the Nations (Hebrew: חסידי אומות העולם, Khasidei Umot HaOlam) is a term used to describe non-Jews who risked their lives during the Holocaust in order to save Jews from extermination by the Nazis. ... German soldiers at the Battle of Stalingrad World War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the worlds nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. ...

  • Antunac, Ivan
  • Bartulović, Olga and Dragica (Split)
  • Bauer, Čedomir and Branko (Zagreb)
  • Bedrica, Mate
  • Belić, Jozefina
  • Belić-Peternel, Đurđa
  • Benčević, Antun and Mira
  • Beritić, Zina-Gertruda and Tihomil, (Zagreb)
  • Bjelajec, Ivana
  • Borić, Nevenka (posthumously)
  • Breskvar, Ivan
  • Buterin, Matej (Zadar)
  • Božić, Marko
  • Car, Marija and Karel
  • Carnelutti, Alfred, Vera and Mario (Zagreb)
  • Crndić, Anka (posthumously)
  • Deletis, Ratimir
  • Djerek, Agata (posthumously)
  • Dolinar, Žarko and Boris
  • Eberhard, Josip and Rozika
  • Ercegović, Miho and Velimir (Zagreb)
  • Filipović, Krista and Marijan (Zagreb) - Marijan was a writer, author of Bobi i Rudi'
  • Fuchs, Ruža
  • Fulgosi, Ante
  • Griner, Franjo and Lidija
  • Guina, Marija (Makarska)
  • Hocenski, Milica and Franjo (posthumously)
  • Horvat, Pavao (Karlovac) - he was the first Croatian Righteous Among the Nations in 1965
  • Janković, Stjepan - he was a priest in the village of Lukač near Čakovec
  • Jesih, Dragutin - a priest
  • Jurić, Andrija and Nikola (Pelješac)
  • Jurin, Cecilija and Karitas
  • Kalogjera, Ante (posthumously)
  • Kalogjera, Jakša
  • Kapetanović family
  • Kirec, Miroslav
  • Kovačević family (posthumously).
  • Kovačić, Hedviga and Vinko (posthumously)
  • Kraljević, Ada and Ivo
  • Krtić, Franjo
  • Kudlik, Bela and Katarina
  • Kumrić, Iva and Tomo
  • Lang, Ljubica (posthumously)
  • Lončar, Ankica (posthumously)
  • Lončar, Darko
  • Malčić, Juca
  • Milharčić-Vlahović, Lujza
  • Milošević, Ante
  • Milošević, Vid Andrija
  • Obradović, Olga and Ida
  • Oružec, Kata and Đuro
  • Oštrić, Anka (Zagreb)
  • Podolski, Štefanija
  • Poklepović, Andrija
  • Praschek, Bronislawa and Wladislaw
  • Pribilović, Josip
  • Radonić, Antica and Jakov
  • Roić, Boris
  • Roussal, Vera
  • Saračević, Elza, Feris, Sead and Emira - Sead was a journalist from Zagreb
  • Silobrčić, Mihovil
  • Sopianac, Franjo and Lela
  • Šiljeg, Pera and Stanko (Metković) (posthumously)
  • Štefan, Lujo and Ljubica
  • Taborski, Emanuel and Mandica
  • Till, Adam
  • Ujević, Mate - he was the lexicographer who made the Croatian Encyclopedia (1938-1945)
  • Vranetić, Ivan (Zagreb)
  • Vuletić, Ante
  • Žagar, Ljuba or Ljubica

External links

In English:

  • Croatian Righteous

In Croatian:

  • Projekt pravednici među narodima
  • Pravednici među narodima 2005
  • Heroji iz našeg susjedstva


 
 

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