Amiel Shomrony
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Amiel Shomrony was a Croatia
n Jew who survived the Holocaust as the secretary of Zagreb's chief rabbi Miroslav Šalom Freiberger
during the World War II
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Prior to World War II Shomrony studied to be a veterinarian. After the establishment of the Independent State of Croatia and the enactment of race laws, he was forced to stop his studies. He was employed at the Jewish municipality in Zagreb as the secretary of the chief rabbi Miroslav Shalom Freiberger. In mid-1943 Shomrony escaped Zagreb, shortly before the city's remaining Jews were taken to Auschwitz. His route took his family from Zagreb to Budapest, through Romania and Bulgaria to Istanbul, and in 1944 he arrived in Palestine.
Shomrony twice nominated the war-time archbishop of Zagreb Aloysius Stepinac
to be listed among the Righteous Among the Nations
: in 1970 and in 1994. He returned to Croatia in 1996 to participate in a conference on Stepinac. As part of the visit he appeared in the documentary film Svjedok istine. Shomrony died in Israel in 2009.
Croatia
Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...
n Jew who survived the Holocaust as the secretary of Zagreb's chief rabbi Miroslav Šalom Freiberger
Miroslav Šalom Freiberger
Miroslav Šalom Freiberger was chief rabbi of Zagreb and a catechist, translator, writer and spiritual leader. He was educated as a lawyer and doctor of theology.-Biography:...
during the World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
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Prior to World War II Shomrony studied to be a veterinarian. After the establishment of the Independent State of Croatia and the enactment of race laws, he was forced to stop his studies. He was employed at the Jewish municipality in Zagreb as the secretary of the chief rabbi Miroslav Shalom Freiberger. In mid-1943 Shomrony escaped Zagreb, shortly before the city's remaining Jews were taken to Auschwitz. His route took his family from Zagreb to Budapest, through Romania and Bulgaria to Istanbul, and in 1944 he arrived in Palestine.
Shomrony twice nominated the war-time archbishop of Zagreb Aloysius Stepinac
Aloysius Stepinac
Aloysius Viktor Stepinac , also known as Blessed Aloysius Stepinac, was a Croatian Catholic cardinal and Archbishop of Zagreb from 1937 to 1960. In 1998 he was declared a martyr and beatified by Pope John Paul II....
to be listed among the 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....
: in 1970 and in 1994. He returned to Croatia in 1996 to participate in a conference on Stepinac. As part of the visit he appeared in the documentary film Svjedok istine. Shomrony died in Israel in 2009.