Croatian Righteous Among the Nations

This is the list of Croatian Righteous among the Nations

Righteous Among the Nations

Righteous among the Nations of the world's nations"), also translated as Righteous Gentiles is an honorific used by the State of Israel to describe non-Jews who risked their lives during the Holocaust to save Jews from extermination by the Nazis....

. 102 Croatia

Croatia

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ns were honored with this title by the state of Israel

Israel

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for saving Jews

Jews

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during World War II

World War II

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Antunac, Ivan
Bartulović, Olga and Dragica (Split)
Bauer, Čedomir and Branko (Zagreb)
Bedrica, Mate
Belić, Jozefina
Belić-Peternel, Đurđa
Benčević, Antun and Mira
Beritić, Zina-Gertruda and Tihomil
Tihomil Beritić
Tihomil Beritić was a Croatian physician.Beritić was born in Herceg Novi. He graduated from the School of Medicine, University of Zagreb in 1943, where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1980.Beritić's research focus was hematology and toxicology...

, (Zagreb)
Bjelajec, Ivana
Borić, Nevenka (posthumously)
Breskvar, Ivan
Buterin, Matej (Zadar)
Božić, Marko
Car, Marija and Karel
Carnelutti, Alfred, Vera and Mario (Zagreb)
Crndić, Anka (posthumously)
Deletis, Ratimir
Djerek, Agata (posthumously)
Dolinar, Žarko
Žarko Dolinar
Žarko Dolinar , Ph.D., a native of Koprivnica, Yugoslavia was a biologist by vocation and university academic who earned eight medals in the World Table Tennis Championships....

and Boris
Eberhard, Josip and Rozika
Ercegović, Miho and Velimir (Zagreb)
Filipović, Krista and Marijan (Zagreb) - Marijan was a writer, author of Bobi i Rudi'
Fuchs, Ruža
Fulgosi, Ante
Griner, Franjo and Lidija
Guina, Marija (Makarska)
Hocenski, Milica and Franjo (posthumously)
Horvat, Pavao (Karlovac) - he was the first Croatian Righteous Among the Nations in 1965
Janković, Stjepan - he was a Catholic priest in the village of Lukač near Čakovec
Jesih, Dragutin - a Catholic priest
Jurić, Andrija and Nikola (Pelješac)
Jurin, Cecilija and Karitas - Catholic nuns
Kalogjera, Ante (posthumously)
Kalogjera, Jakša
Kapetanović family
Kirec, Miroslav
Kovačević family (posthumously).
Kovačić, Hedviga and Vinko (posthumously)
Kraljević, Ada and Ivo
Krtić, Franjo
Kudlik, Bela and Katarina
Kumrić, Iva and Tomo
Lang, Ljubica (posthumously)
Lončar, Ankica (posthumously)
Lončar, Darko
Malčić, Juca
Milharčić-Vlahović, Lujza
Milošević, Ante
Milošević, Vid Andrija
Obradović, Olga and Ida
Oružec, Kata and Đuro
Oštrić, Anka (Zagreb)
Pavlović, Amadeja (posthumously) - Mother Superior of the Convent of the Sisters of the Holy Cross in Djakovo.
Podolski, Štefanija
Poklepović, Andrija
Praschek, Bronislawa and Wladislaw
Pribilović, Josip
Radonić, Antica and Jakov
Roić, Boris
Roussal, Vera (Roušal Vera)
Saračević, Elza, Feris, Sead and Emira - Sead was a journalist from Zagreb
Silobrčić, Mihovil
Sopianac, Franjo and Lela
Šiljeg, Pera and Stanko (Metković) (posthumously)
Štefan, Lujo and Ljubica
Taborski, Emanuel and Mandica
Till, Adam
Ujević, Mate
Mate Ujevic
Mate Ujević was a Croatian poet and encyclopedist.Ujević finished gymnasium in Sinj and Split and studied literature in Zagreb. He bachelored in Ljubljana and finished his doctoral dissertation on poet Jovan Hranilović in Zagreb...

- he was the lexicographer who made the Croatian Encyclopedia (1938-1945)
Vranetić, Ivan
Ivan Vranetić
Ivan "Ivica" Vranetić was a Yugoslav partisan of ethnic Croatian descent, whose aid to Jewish people during World War II resulted in his inclusion among the "Righteous Among the Nations" by Yad Vashem in 1970...

(Zagreb)
Vuletić, Ante
Žagar, Ljuba or Ljubica

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