| vlasta kovač: Re: I'm a Leimdorfer, from Argentina | vlasta: re:leimdörfer. Oliver Bryk asked: "I would like to find out where Aladar was born, who his parents were, where he was educated", etc. Aladar Leimdörfer (his name in Croatian was also Vladimir ) was born in Budapest, July 27, 1877, and he died on April 12,1936. His father was Jakob Leimdörfer, and his mother was Julia Engel. He converted to the evangelic faith, and in 1935, he was one of the accused in a big corruptionist scandal in the then Yugoslavia, the scandal was known under the name "Naiccka d.d.". Out of 48 among the accused, 15 were Jews, and later it was proved that the accusations against them were for the most part fabricated. Aladar died in 1936, when he was only 59, and I guess that this affair had contributed to his premature death. My grandfather was a lawyer in Osijek where the process at the court took place and he defended one of the accused in this affair, so many years later the judicial verdict came into my possession and here one can find the generalia of all of the accused. After Aladar¨s death Ella Leimdörfer moved to Zagreb with her sons. Her son Gustav studied medicine in Zagreb , he got his medical degree in 1940/41. Her son Franjo (Franz) was taken to the camp Danica near Koprivnica in June 1941, together with other Jewish youngsters from Zagreb (165 of them were deported on May 31, and Franjo's name is on the list) and from there they were transferred to Gospić in Lika and then to Jadovno, a plain on the Velebit mountain, where they were murdered by the Ustashas. In 1942. Gustav was deported to Jasenovac and he survived until 1945, he worked as a camp doctor and he died just before the war ended. His camp mates had him in a good memory. Recently Ivan vertasek published an autobiographical book "Đurđenovac of my chilhood" where he described the Leimdörfer family. SSvertasek died last year, the book was published in Nassice by the local library (Gradska knjinica Naice). The name of the righteos gentile who saved Ella and her son Ivan, who was an invalid, very ill from childhood on, was dr.Boris Roić. Ella died in 1946, Ivan survived her. If you want to know how I know all this, here is my e-mail adress: vlasta.kovac -k-u-k-a-c- zg.t-com -p-o-n-t- hr
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