Boris Braun
Boris Braun | |
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Born | Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (now Croatia) | 20 August 1920
Died | 7 October 2018 | (aged 98)
Nationality | Croat |
Alma mater | University of Zagreb |
Occupation | University professor |
Boris Braun (20 August 1920 – 7 October 2018) was a Croatian University professor,
Early life
Braun was born to Šandor and Elizabeta (
Before World War II he studied agriculture at the University of Zagreb. In 1941, with the establishment of the Independent State of Croatia, Braun was banned from the University of Zagreb for being Jewish. He returned to Đurđevac where he helped his father run the family business. Braun also helped maintain the substation and learned from his father's employees about electricity, knowledge that would later save his life. In the autumn of 1942, although his father was an acquaintance of the Independent State of Croatia military commander Slavko Kvaternik, Braun and his parents were arrested and transported to Zagreb, to the prison at Savska Cesta. Only Braun's sister managed to avoid the arrest because she was married to a Catholic from Zagreb. Eight months later in 1943, with a large group of Jews from Zagreb, Braun and his parents were deported in the cattle wagons to Auschwitz.
Life in the camps
His parents were killed in the
Post War
In the summer of 1945, Braun returned to the University of Zagreb, where he finished his studies at the Faculty of Agriculture. He worked as a professor at the university until 1971. That year he rebelled against the decision of the other university professors to expel a colleague who had participated in the Croatian Spring. Later he worked as a poultry inspector. Braun was very active in bearing witness to the horrors of Holocaust to elementary and primary school children across Zagreb.[1][2][3][4]
In 2005, Braun was named an Honorary Citizen of Đurđevac.[5] He died on 7 October 2018 at the age of 98 years.[6]
References
- ^ a b "Preživio sam Auschwitz, majka i otac nisu". Goran Prokopec (in Croatian). Deutsche Welle.
- ^ a b Goldstein (2001, pp. 431, 433)
- ^ "Sjećanje na holokaust: Prof. Boris Braun - električar bodljikave žice". Bojana Mrvoš Pavić (in Croatian). Novi list.
- ^ "Razgovor s Borisom Braunom" (in Croatian). Autonomni Kulturni Centar »Medika«. Archived from the original on 2013-10-14. Retrieved 2012-08-25.
- ^ "Javna priznanja grada Đurđevca" (in Croatian). www.djurdjevac.eu. Archived from the original on 2012-08-10. Retrieved 2012-09-01.
- ^ "Überlebender der KZ Auschwitz, Groß-Rosen und Buchenwald und kroatischer Vizepräsident des Internationalen Komitees Buchenwald-Dora und Kommandos (IKBD) verstorben". Archived from the original on 19 October 2021. Retrieved 21 August 2019.
Bibliography
- Goldstein, Ivo (2001). Holokaust u Zagrebu. Zagreb: Novi Liber. ISBN 953-6045-19-2.