Aleksandar Savić (born Alel Schwarz; 19231941) was a

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activist and member of the

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in Croatia, murdered during

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. Savić was born in

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to a

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family, the son of Miroslav Savić and Ina Juhn-Broda. His father changed the family surname from Schwarz to Savić due to the increasingly intense

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in the 1930s. Savić joined the Young Communist League of Yugoslavia - SKOJ (from Serbo-Croatian: ''Savez komunističke omladine Jugoslavije'') during high school education. Savić was influenced by Beno Stein (a Croatian communist and medical internist, whose apartment was a favorite meeting place for leftist intellectuals) and his mother communist activities. Savić attended the gymnasium in Zagreb, where he led the SKOJ activities and was member of the SKOJ high school leadership in Zagreb. Savić gathered the SKOJ advanced youth and held illegal meetings in his apartment. With the establishment of the

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in 1941, he joined the resistance movement in Croatia. He participated in the writing of anti-fascist slogans and distribution of leaflets. On 24–25 May 1941, he was arrested with the group of 165 young Jewish men. He was deported to the

Danica concentration camp Danica was the first concentration and extermination camp established in the Independent State of Croatia during World War II. It was established in Koprivnica (located in modern-day Croatia) on 15 or 20 April 1941 in the deserted building of form ...

near

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. Later he was deported to the

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 a member of the Ustaše Militia Juraj Rukavina, it was the first of twenty-six concentration cam ...

where he was killed by

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in July 1941; he was 17 or 18 years old.

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