Viktor Rosenzweig (1914–1941) was a Croatian

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, poet and writer. Rosenzweig was born in

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in 1914 to a Jewish family. During high school education he became a member of the Young Communist League of Yugoslavia - SKOJ (from Serbo-Croatian: ''Savez komunističke omladine Jugoslavije''). Rosenzweig studied and graduated from the Faculty of Agriculture at

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. At the university he was one of the most observed and noticed

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around. In 1934, he became a member of the

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. In 1935, as a communist, he was sentenced to six months in prison. Rosenweig was a poet who wrote number of poems. Some of his poets were later published in a revolutionary writers collection "Riječi i Djela" (''Words and Acts''). In April 1941, after

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establishment, Rosenzweig was arrested and imprisoned at Savska cesta prison. On July 9, 1941 Rosenzweig was killed by

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together with

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, Ognjen Prica and Zvonimir Richtmann.

Published works

* ''Naš život'', Orbis Zagreb, 1939

References

Bibliography

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Rosenzweig, Viktor 1914 births 1941 deaths People from Ruma Croatian Jews Jews from Austria-Hungary Croatian Austro-Hungarians Croatian people of Serbian-Jewish descent Croatian communists Croatian male poets Croatian civilians killed in World War II Deaths by firearm in Croatia Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb alumni Jewish socialists 20th-century Croatian poets Croatian Marxists People executed by the Independent State of Croatia