Metal badge with the letter Ž to identify a Croatian Jew
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Metal badge with the letter Ž to identify a Croatian Jew
Alfred Grunhut was born in 1882 in Zagreb, Croatia. He was a well known actor, director of silent Serbian films, and cabaret performer. He survived the Holocaust in Zagreb, despite the persecution of Jews by the independent government of Croatia. After the 1941 partition of Yugoslavia by the Germans, Croatia was run by the Ustasa, a fanatically nationalist, fascist organization. whose government was endorsed by Germany and the Axis powers. Grunhut was married to a non-Jewish woman, who when she died years later left her estate to their longtime live-in maid, Miroslava Babic. Grunhut died in Zagreb, age 63, on October 10, 1946.
Metal badge with the letter Ž to identify a Croatian Jew