This article lists the in the Republic of Croatia. is the German name for stumbling blocks collocated all over Europe by German artist Gunter Demnig. They remember the fate of the Nazi victims being murdered, deported, exiled or driven to suicide.
Generally, the stumbling blocks are posed in front of the building where the victims had their last self-chosen residence. Until now in Croatia there has been only one collocation of —in 2013 in the Adriatic town Rijeka (, in Italian: Fiume). From 1466, this town was under Habsburg rule for four and half centuries, at last with two-thirds of its inhabitants being of Italian descent. Thereafter, Rijeka was independent for some years. From 1924 to the end of WW2, the city belonged to Italy. The name of the Stolpersteine in Croatian is , and in Italian: .
Rijeka
Stone Inscription Location Life and death HERE LIVEDEUGENIO LIPSCHITZBORN 1883ARRESTED MARCH 1944INTERNED IN RISIERADI SAN SABBADEPORTED 1944AUSCHWITZMURDERED AT AN UNKNOWN DATE Ante Starčevića 5 was born on 5 May 1883 in the Western Hungarian city of Sümeg. His family moved to Fiume/Rijeka in 1894. He established himself as a retailer of gadgets and jewelry and married Zseni Zipszer, also called Giannetta. The couple had three children, the sons Arturo (1914–1980) and Efraim (born 1919) and the daughter Magda (also Maddalena), who later-on was married to Enrico Heimler and took his name. Both sons were able to emigrate to Palestine in time. His daughter Magda, together with her husband, her mother-in-law and her sister-in-law, escaped to Central Italy in September 1943, and thereafter to Switzerland where she could survive the Holocaust. Jeremus Eugenio Lipschitz was interned by the Mussolini regime 28 July – 22 December 1940 in the Campagna internment camp. After his release he was not allowed to return to Fiume for a certain period. He and his wife were arrested in Fiume by German forces in March 1944, first deported to Risiera di San Sabba, a German concentration camp in Trieste, later to Auschwitz Birkenau concentration camp. There, both were murdered at an unknown time.
His sister Giuseppina and her husband Adolfo Simkovits were also murdered in Auschwitz."Lipschitz, Giuseppina", CDEC Digital Library, retrieved on 6 May 2017.
Lipschitz's report on the internment in Campagna was translated by his daughter from Hungarian to Italian and published in 2001 in book form. His report was designated by the Corriere del Mezzogiorno as a particularly relevant historical document. Excerpts appeared in two anthologies in 2011 and 2015. Contains excerpts and quotations from the diary entries of Eugenio Lipschitz. Contains excerpts from the diary entries of Eugenio Lipschitz. HERE LIVEDGIANNETTA ZIPSZERLIPSCHITZBORN 1893ARRESTED MARCH 1944INTERNED IN RISIERADI SAN SABBADEPORTED 1944AUSCHWITZMURDERED AT AN UNKNOWN DATE Ante Starčevića 5 , also Zseni, was born on 18 June 1893 in Mád in Northeastern Hungary. Her parents were shop assistant Albert Zipszer (born 1843) and the housewife Rozaliá Altmann (born 1848)."ZIPSZER ALBERT", Footsteps of Wonder Rabbis, retrieved on 29 Dec 2016."ALTMANN ROZÁLIA", Footsteps of Wonder Rabbis, retrieved on 29 Dec 2016. She had at least one brother, Herman, born 1868 in Mad."ZIPSZER HERMAN", Footsteps of Wonder Rabbis, retrieved on 29 Dec 2016. She lived in Fiume/Rijeka from 1914, was married to Jeremus Eugenio Lipschitz and worked as a housewife. The couple had at least three children who were all born in Fiume and who could survive the German occupation and the Holocaust: Arturo, Magda and Efraim.
Together with her husband, she was arrested in Fiume in March 1944, deported to Risiera di San Sabba, and later to Auschwitz Birkenau concentration camp, where she was murdered by the Nazi regime at an unknown time, as was her husband.
Dates of collocations The collocation in Rijeka took place on 21 May 2013. For both victims two were posed, one in Croatian and one in Italian. The planned collocation of a for Branko Lustig in Osijek on 22 May 2013 has probably not taken place.
See also The Holocaust in the Independent State of Croatia List of places with Stolpersteine
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External links
stolpersteine.eu, Demnig's website Ebrei a Fiume e Abbazia, Inschlicht—Luzio