Jewish Zagreb

Klara Brandl

Watch the testimony of Klara Brandl who explains the adoption of the restrictive measures and how these affected her family's life. Read her short biography.

Klara Brandl (Ivanec, 1912 – Zagreb, 2006) was born into the merchant family Goldberger. She spent her childhood in Varaždin. She married Pavao Winter in Zagreb in 1936. The following year, their daughter Vera was born. They lived in Petrinjska street, and right at the beginning of the war, Pavao was arrested and taken to Petrinjska for questioning, where he was murdered. She first moved to her husband's family in Zrinjevac because they were protected as a family of doctors who treated endemic syphilis in Bosnia. After some time, he moves to Trešnjevka, where she often moves, and when the situation worsens, she flees to the Italian zone. She passes through the Italian camps Kraljevica and Rab, and after the capitulation of Italy, she tried to go to Italy with Vera, but after someone else took her pass away, she spent the rest of the war with the National Liberation Movement. 63 members of her family were killed in the Holocaust.


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