Aleksandar SaviÄ
1923–1941
- Nationality
- Yugoslavia
Aleksandar SaviÄ (born Alel Schwarz; 1923 â 1941) was a Croatian communist activist and member of the partisan resistance movement in Croatia, murdered during the Holocaust in the Independent State of Croatia. SaviÄ was born in Zagreb to a Jewish family, the son of Miroslav SaviÄ and Ina Juhn-Broda.
Incarceration history
- Jadovno concentration campDates unknown
- Danica concentration campDates unknown
Biography
Aleksandar SaviÄ (born Alel Schwarz; 1923 â 1941) was a Croatian communist activist and member of the partisan resistance movement in Croatia, murdered during the Holocaust in the Independent State of Croatia. SaviÄ was born in Zagreb to a Jewish family, the son of Miroslav SaviÄ and Ina Juhn-Broda. His father changed the family surname from Schwarz to SaviÄ due to the increasingly intense antisemitism in the 1930s. SaviÄ joined the Young Communist League of Yugoslavia - SKOJ (from Serbo-Croatian: Savez komunistiÄke omladine Jugoslavije) during high school education. SaviÄ was influenced by Beno Stein (a Croatian communist and medical internist, whose apartment was a favorite meeting place for leftist intellectuals) and his mother communist activities. SaviÄ attended the gymnasium in Zagreb, where he led the SKOJ activities and was member of the SKOJ high school leadership in Zagreb. SaviÄ gathered the SKOJ advanced youth and held illegal meetings in his apartment. With the establishment of the Independent State of Croatia in 1941, he joined the resistance movement in Croatia. He participated in the writing of anti-fascist slogans and distribution of leaflets. On 24â25 May 1941, he was arrested with the group of 165 young Jewish men. He was deported to the Danica concentration camp near Koprivnica. Later he was deported to the Jadovno concentration camp where he was killed by UstaÅ¡e in July 1941; he was 17 or 18 years old.