Amiel Shomrony
Amiel Shomrony | |
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Born | Emil Schwarz 1917 |
Died | 2009 (aged 92) |
Nationality | Croatia Israel |
Occupation | Hazzan |
Amiel Shomrony (born Emil Schwarz;
Holocaust survivor, who served as secretary of Zagreb's chief rabbi Miroslav Šalom Freiberger during World War II
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Shomrony was born in 1917, the son of physician Milan Schwartz. He had an older sister, Hedva. When he was 13, his mother, Lora, died of cancer. Prior to World War II, Shomrony studied to be a veterinarian. In 1941, after the
German invasion of Yugoslavia, Shomrony and his family were protected by Dido Kvaternik who had been his father's patient.[1]
After the establishment of the
Auschwitz. The route took Shomrony, his wife, daughter, and father from Zagreb to Budapest, through Romania and Bulgaria to Istanbul, and in 1944 they arrived in Palestine.[1]
Shomrony twice nominated the war-time archbishop of Zagreb Aloysius Stepinac to be listed among the Righteous Among the Nations: in 1970 and in 1994. He returned to Croatia in 1996 to participate in a conference on Stepinac. As part of the visit he appeared in the documentary film Svjedok istine.[2]
Shomrony died in Israel in 2009.[3]
References
- ^ a b "Oral history interview with Amiel Shomroni". United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 14 August 1992. Retrieved 25 May 2013.
- ^ "Kardinal Stepinac i spašavanje židova". Metro-portal.hr. 16 January 2009. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
- ^ "Portal Hrvatskoga kulturnog vijeća - Portal Hrvatskoga kulturnog vijeća". Hakave.org. 13 September 2009. Retrieved 3 August 2017.