Armin Mordekhai Schreiner (25 February 187429 November 1941) was influential
Croatian industrialist, banker,
Jewish activist and member of the first
Freemasonry
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Jewish Lodge Zagreb No. 1090 independent order of
B'nai B'rith
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.
Schreiner was born on 25 February 1874 to Yaakov and Khana Schreiner. He was Jewish, considered himself non-
Zionists
Zionism ( he, צִיּוֹנוּת ''Tsiyyonut'' after ''Zion'') is a nationalist movement that espouses the establishment of, and support for a homeland for the Jewish people centered in the area roughly corresponding to what is known in Jew ...
and was married to Roza Schreiner.
He and his wife had six children; daughters Mira (b. 1915)
and Ella (b. 1902), and sons; Leo (now Arie Aharoni, b. 1913),
Ferdinand (b. 1901),
Hadumi (b. 1908), Vladimir (b. 1909),
and Otto (b. 1912).
He was the owner of multiple factories, among them brick factory "Zagorka" (now ''"Tondach Hrvatska"'')
in
Bedekovčina
Bedekovčina is a village and municipality in the Krapina-Zagorje County in Croatia. It is connected by the state road D24 and R201 railway. In the 2011 census, the total population of the municipality was 8,041, in the following settlements:
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. He was also the vice president of "Gradska štedionica" (now ''"
Zagrebačka banka
Zagrebačka banka d.d. is the largest bank in Croatia, owned by UniCredit group of Italy. It was the first Croatian bank to become fully privatised in 1989 and the first one to be listed at the Zagreb Stock Exchange in 1995. It is one of 24 compan ...
"'') and vice president of the "Industrialists Union".
Schreiner's family suffered terrible devastation 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; a ...
. Schreiner was killed at the
Jasenovac concentration camp in 1941.
[ His son Vladimir was killed in 1941 at ]Jadovno concentration camp
The Jadovno concentration camp was a concentration and extermination camp in the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) during World War II. Commanded by Juco Rukavina, it was the first of twenty-six concentration camps in the NDH during the war. Est ...
,[ son Otto in 1941 at ]Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki (; el, Θεσσαλονίκη, , also known as Thessalonica (), Saloniki, or Salonica (), is the second-largest city in Greece, with over one million inhabitants in its Thessaloniki metropolitan area, metropolitan area, and the capi ...
,[ and son Ferdinand, with his 7-year-old daughter Helga, in 1942 at the ]Auschwitz concentration camp
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1874 births
1941 deaths
People from Koprivnica
Croatian Jews who died in the Holocaust
Jews from Austria-Hungary
Croatian Austro-Hungarians
Croatian bankers
Croatian businesspeople
Croatian Freemasons
Croatian civilians killed in World War II
People who died in Jasenovac concentration camp
Croatian people executed in Nazi concentration camps
Anti-Zionist Jews