Daniel Ivin (born Danko Goldstein; 16 April 1932 – 20 June 2021) was a

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Biography

Ivin was born in April 1932, and raised in

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, in a

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family. His elder brother was

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. His father, Ivo ("Izchak") Goldstein, was a book dealer in Karlovac. In 1941, his father was murdered by the

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at the

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. As a boy, Danko joined the Partisans and served as a courier. At the end of 1942, he watched over Ustaše captive

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and informed the Partisan headquarters about the latter's health. He changed his name from Danko to Daniel/Danijel, and surname from Goldstein to Ivin (meaning son of Ivo) in honour of his late father. From 1949–52, Ivin lived in Israel and served in

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. Upon his return to Croatia he worked as a journalist. Later he worked under

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at the "Institute for history of the labor movement" in

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. In 1966, for his attempt to start the non-Communist newspaper ''Slobodna riječ'' (''Free word''), he was sentenced to several months in prison under charges of organizing the assassination of

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. After being released, Ivin lived in Switzerland and Great Britain. In 1989, together with his brother Slavko, Ivin founded the

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. In 1993 he co-founded the

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, serving as president in 2007. In 2012 he was elected as a new president of the "Council of the Croatian anti-fascists". Ivin died on 20 June 2021, at the age of 89.

Works

* ''Hrvatsko pitanje: Nitko ne gleda kroz prozor sam'' (1999), Nakladni Zavod Matice Hrvatske, Zagreb * ''Revolution und Evolution in Jugoslawien'' (1968), Francke Verlag, Bern

References

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