Lavoslav Kadelburg (26 August 1910 – 12 December 1994) was a Yugoslavian lawyer, judge, polyglot and activist. Born in

Vinkovci Vinkovci () is a city in Slavonia, in the Vukovar-Syrmia County in eastern Croatia. The city's registered population was 28,247 in the 2021 census, the total population of the city was 31,057, making it the largest town of the county. Surrounde ...

on 26 August 1910 to a

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Jewish Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...

Josip Šarčević:
Poznati učenici i profesori Vinkovačke gimnazije
'': p. 78: year 2004/2005. family, Kadelburg completed his secondary education there. Before the Nazi invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941, he had been a reserve officer of the

Royal Yugoslav Army The Yugoslav Army ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, Jugoslovenska vojska, JV, Југословенска војска, ЈВ), commonly the Royal Yugoslav Army, was the land warfare military service branch of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (originally Kingdom of Serbs ...

. He was interned in POW camps in

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during

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. With Dr. Albert Vajs, Kadelburg helped tend to surviving

Yugoslavia Yugoslavia (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Jugoslavija, Југославија ; sl, Jugoslavija ; mk, Југославија ;; rup, Iugoslavia; hu, Jugoszlávia; rue, label=Pannonian Rusyn, Югославия, translit=Juhoslavija ...

n Jews in the aftermath of

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 ...

References

Sources

* Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd edition (ISBN#?)

External links

AJC archive files

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