The Alexander family was a prominent
Croatia
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n Jewish family from
Zagreb
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. Alexander family ancestors moved to Zagreb from
Güssing
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in
Austria
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. For a century, the family played an important role in the economic and social life of Zagreb. Until 1941 and the establishment of the
Independent State of Croatia
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the Alexanders were a large clan.
The great-grandparents of the Zagreb Alexanders were Samuel and Julija (
née Rubin alias Fittel Neumann) Alexander, who had five sons and several daughters. Counting all of their deceased and still living members, including also the descendants of the female line, there were 224 Alexanders in seven generations. Many members of the family perished during the
Holocaust
The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; ...
. Today a few descendants bear the surname Alexander.
The members of the family who were murdered during the Holocaust:
Zora Marić born Alexander (1895-1944
Auschwitz),and her husband Artur Marić (born Mayer; Zagreb, 1889 – Petrinja, 1941); Gjuro (Đuro/Duka) Alexander (1895-1941), his wife Ines born Altstätter (1896-1941) and their son Miljenko (1924-1941); Otto Alexander (1883-1944) and his mother-in-law Frieda Weiss (-1944); Zlata/Aurelija Breyer born Alexander (1875-1942) and her husband Žiga (=Sigismund) Breyer (b. in Križevci, Croatia; 1866-1942); Stanko Kreč (-1941);Ella Boran-Plachte born Marić (1893-1943) and her second husband Dr. Filip Boran (Bornstein; -1943); Ilka Alexander (1869-1942
Jasenovac concentration camp
Jasenovac () was a concentration and extermination camp established in the village of the same name by the authorities of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) in occupied Yugoslavia during World War II. The concentration camp, one of the ...
) and Otto Vinski (1877-1942
Jasenovac concentration camp
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Samuel David Alexander
Samuel "Sami" David Alexander (13 July 1862 – 8 March 1943) was a Croatian Jewish industrialist, doyen of Croatian industrialists, a philanthropist and a member of the Zagreb prominent Alexander family.
Background and family
Alexander, known ...
(1862–1943)
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Šandor Alexander
Šandor Alexander pl. Sesvetski (April 5, 1866 – December 17, 1929) was a Croatian nobleman, industrialist, philanthropist, younger brother of Samuel David Alexander and member of the Zagreb prominent Alexander family.
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(1866–1929)
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Viktor Alexander (1865–1934)
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Oton Vinski (1877–1942)
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Zdenko Vinski (1913–1989)
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Ezel Alexander (1994–)
See also
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Aleksander (Hasidic dynasty)
References
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