18 Facts About Slavko Goldstein

Slavko Goldstein was a Croatian historian, politician, and fiction writer.

Slavko Goldstein was born in Sarajevo in the Jewish family of Ivo and Lea Goldstein.

Slavko Goldstein was born during a trip to Sarajevo, and spent his childhood in Karlovac with his brother Danko, where his father was a book dealer.

From Spring 1942 to 1945, Slavko Goldstein was active in the field and combat units of the NOVJ.

Slavko Goldstein ended the war, at 17, with the rank of Lieutenant.

Slavko Goldstein's father was killed at Jadovno concentration camp at the end of July or the first day of August 1941.

Apart from his father, Slavko Goldstein lost a part of the family from Tuzla during the Holocaust, who were killed in the Jasenovac concentration camp and Auschwitz.

Slavko Goldstein lived there for few years in a kibbutz with his brother.

Slavko Goldstein returned to SFR Yugoslavia in the 1950s, and started studying literature and philosophy at the Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, but he never graduated.

Slavko Goldstein worked at Jadran Film, and in 1952 was a member of the editorial staff of Vjesnika u srijedu, editor at Radio Zagreb, and since 1969 editor-in-chief of the publishing house Stvarnost.

Since the 1950s, Slavko Goldstein has been continuously active in journalism, publishing and public life in Yugoslavia and later Croatia.

Slavko Goldstein is the founder of the publishing house Sveucilisne naklade Liber.

Slavko Goldstein directed five documentary films, and wrote screenplays for several Yugoslav World War II films such as Signal Over the City, Prometheus of the Island, and Operation Stadium.

Slavko Goldstein edited more than 150 books, and worked as a publisher on about 400 titles.

Slavko Goldstein launched the journal for democratic culture "Erazmus", of which he was the editor-in-chief.

Slavko Goldstein was then the first president of the Jewish religious community Beth Israel from Zagreb, founded in 2007 after an internal conflict in the Jewish community of Zagreb led by Ognjen Kraus.

In 2015, Slavko Goldstein opposed the initiative to introduce the greeting Za dom spremni as an official greeting of the Armed Forces of Croatia.

Slavko Goldstein stated that he would not be able to live in Croatia if the greeting was introduced in the military, schools or other state institutions, and that he would immediately seek political asylum in another European country.