Viktor Rosenzweig (1914–1941) was a
Croatian-Jewish communist, poet and writer.
Rosenzweig was born in
Ruma
Ruma (; hu, Árpatarló) is a town and municipality in the Srem District of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, Serbia. As of 2011, the town has a population of 30,076, while the municipality has a population of 54,339.
History
Traces of org ...
in 1914. During high school education he became a member of the
Young Communist League of Yugoslavia , SKOJ mk, Сојуз на комунистичката младина на Југославија, СКМЈ sl, Zveza komunistične mladine Jugoslavije, ZKMJ
, colorcode = red
, founded = 1919
, dissolved = 1948
, succeeded by = League of S ...
- SKOJ (from Serbo-Croatian: ''Savez komunističke omladine Jugoslavije''). Rosenzweig studied and graduated from the Faculty of Agriculture at
University of Zagreb
The University of Zagreb ( hr, Sveučilište u Zagrebu, ; la, Universitas Studiorum Zagrabiensis) is the largest Croatian university and the oldest continuously operating university in the area covering Central Europe south of Vienna and all of ...
. At the university he was one of the most observed and noticed
Marxist around. In 1934, he became a member of the
Communist Party of Yugoslavia. In 1935, as a communist, he was sentenced to six months in prison. Rosenweig was a poet who wrote number of poems. Some of his poets were later published in a revolutionary writers collection "Riječi i Djela" (''Words and Acts''). In April 1941, after
Independent State of Croatia
The Independent State of Croatia ( sh, Nezavisna Država Hrvatska, NDH; german: Unabhängiger Staat Kroatien; it, Stato indipendente di Croazia) was a World War II-era puppet state of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. It was established in p ...
establishment, Rosenzweig was arrested and imprisoned at Savska cesta prison. On July 9, 1941 Rosenzweig was killed by
Ustaše
The Ustaše (), also known by anglicised versions Ustasha or Ustashe, was a Croatian fascist and ultranationalist organization active, as one organization, between 1929 and 1945, formally known as the Ustaša – Croatian Revolutionary Move ...
together with
Božidar Adžija,
Otokar Keršovani,
Ognjen Prica and
Zvonimir Richtmann
Zvonimir Richtmann (22 November 19019 July 1941) was a Croatian-Jewish physicist, philosopher, politician and publicist who was killed during World War II by Ustaše.
Biography
Richtmann was born on 22 November 1901 in Zagreb, where he achieved ...
.
Published works
* ''Naš život'', Orbis Zagreb, 1939
References
Bibliography
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1914 births
1941 deaths
People from Ruma
Croatian Jews
Austro-Hungarian Jews
Croatian Austro-Hungarians
Croatian people of Serbian-Jewish descent
Croatian communists
Croatian male poets
Croatian civilians killed in World War II
Deaths by firearm in Croatia
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb alumni
Jewish socialists
20th-century Croatian poets
Croatian Marxists
People executed by the Independent State of Croatia