Numerous members of the community also lived in the neighborhood. Some famous members were Dr. Ivan Jacobi, son of the former chief rabbi Hosea Jacobi, co-owners of the building at Amruševa 13, Lavoslav Schick with his wife (1881–1942), lawyer and founder of Judaistics in the Croatian lands, founder of the Croatian Journalist Society , as well as numerous members of the Freiberger family: parents of the then rabbi Miroslav Šalom – Ante and Anka lived at number 11 – or Miroslav Šalom Freiberger and his wife Irena and son Ruben. Miroslav Šalom Freiberger (1903–1943) was the rabbi and later the chief rabbi of Zagreb, and a prominent Zionist from his youth. He was the first Zagreb rabbi or chief rabbi who was born in Zagreb, or in Croatia in general. He was also the author of a bilingual prayer book (in Hebrew and Croatian). Together with the president of the Community, Hugo Kon (1871–1943), he played an important role in the functioning of the Jewish community during the Holocaust and together with his family was deported in May 1943 to Auschwitz-Birkenau with numerous other members of the Jewish community.
Lavoslav Schick, who in the First World War, as the secretary of the League for the Protection of Children together with Đuro Basariček, took care of thousands of children from BiH and defended the Croatian soldiers who demonstrated against the unification of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in court for free on 5 December 1918, was expelled from the apartment, and in 1941 he was deported to Jasenovac and released on the initiative of Cardinal Alojzije Stepinac. He was soon deported again and murdered in Jasenovac in 1942.
In front of the building at Amruševa 7, a stumbling stone was placed for Lavoslav Schick, and at number 8 for Miroslav Šalom Freiberger. In front of the building that belonged to the Jewish Community at Petrinjska 7, there is also a stumbling stone for Hugo Kon.
Towards the next location, Žrtava fašizma Square, head south to Đorđićeva Street, then to Kneza Mutimira Street, left (to the east) to Kralja Držislava Street. The Square of Victims of Fascism will open in front of you. (550 m or 8 minutes).
- What is the literal and figurative meaning of stumbling stone?
- What do the lives of the prominent individuals of the Jewish community that you have heard about tell us about their position in Zagreb before the beginning of the Second World War and the NDH?