Schwarz Family

From Croatia Jewish Archives:

Schwarz, Adolf, Lawyer (Varazdin, 1871 - Zagreb July 12, 1919) With wife Martha (Holice, Slovakia) Zagreb) Father of daughter Marijana (Zagreb, 1913 - Zagreb July 11th, 1968), Son Ivo and daughter Jelica, widow, Maric (married name). He received a doctorate degree based on rigor, at law university. When NDH was established his widow reported her assets, that she has an apartment in Jelica (main street in Zagreb), and part of a house on street "Protej Matej" in Beograd, bought in 1939 for 2 million dinars.

Adolf Schwarz family tree

SCHWARZ, Ivo (Ivor), lawyer and Jewish activist (Zagreb, October 24th, 1912 - San Francisco, USA, July 3rd, 1989). Son of Adolf and Maria, husband of Flora (maiden surname Kajon). He graduated in Law in Zagreb in 1940 and worked as a law guide. When the NDH was established he took the Jewish arm band (badge) and then escaped to Split, where he was interned in the labor camps in Kraljevica and Kampor on Rab. After the capitulation of Italy in September 1943, he joined the partisans as a fighter in the 7th Banija division unit. From there he was transported with his spouse and his mother to the island of Vis and after that to Bari (Italy) and at the end at the British refugee camp Santa Croce. He worked for the UN Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) and on the accommodation of ex labor camp survivors from Germany. After Rome was liberated, he worked in organizations like Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) and JOINT, taking care of ex camp survivors from Auschwitz and other German camps. From 1946 he lived with his wife in California for two years, after which he worked in Paris as principal of HIAS, and JOINT for a shorter time. He is responsible for migration and accommodation of many Jews, who came from Tunisia, Morocco, SSSR, Romania and other countries and went to Israel, USA and Canada, for which he was awarded special recognition from the US Embassy in Paris. He was friends with major Israeli politicians. With his spouse he was a passionate collector of Etruscan art, so they donated a collection of over 250 remarkably preserved items to the Archaeology museum of Jerusalem, as a memory of Jews from Zagreb that died in the Holocaust.

Kajon, Flora born in Sarajevo Croatia and died in Kensington California. Married Ivor in 1942 in a concentration camp in Sarajevo. No children

Schwarz, Marijana was born in Zagreb and lived most of her life on a wheelchair and died in Zagreb

Schwarz, Jelica Adolph
Married Streten Maric in 1936
Married Dusan Stavanovic 1970

Notes:

The Schwarz and Fröhlich family have the same Fröhlich ancestor now traced to Hohenstadt (Zabreh) Moravia.
Many Schwarz family members were interviewed as Holocaust Survivors and these files can be viewed at: USC SHOAH FOUNDATION VISUAL HISTORY ARCHIVES. Free access.
Another less detailed interview ‘A Village in Serbia Accepted me, and the Villagers saved My Life’ was published by the Belgrade Jewish Museum between 2001 and 2009. The series is a collection of testimonies from Jews who survived the Holocaust in the former Yugoslavia.
Some documents show Ivor Svarc and others as Ivo Schwarz.

No other live Schwarz descendants exist.

Jelica Adolf Schwarz and Dusan Stavanovic at interview in Belgrade Serbia in 1998.

Following data from Croatian Jewish Archives:

Fröhlich, Oskar, entrepreneur (born in Zabreh, Czech Republic on 2 May 1879 - died in Italy, 1944). He moved to Croatia from Zurich (Switzerland) in 1910. Before WW2 he was director and stakeholder at a wood industry company called “Croatia”. He owned land on the north side of Zagreb (Medvednica Park) which was named after him “Frohlich’s meadows”. In 1938 he and his family converted to Catholicism. After the establishment of NDH he lost his job, and he was forced to resign on all boards he was a member of. He was inscribed in the files of Jewish signs, but he did not take the sign because he fled to Italy with his son Franco and daughter Adrienne. Slavko Kvarternik (Ustase military General) moved into his villa in Tuscany (today an orphanage). In denunciation, which was written in his name by his cousin Ivo Schwartz on July 28th, it was stated that three items were taken out from the villa, which represent a family memory, that is they serve the owner’s children for personal use, with the knowledge and approval of the wife of “General Kvaternik”. Son Franco, antiquarian and a sportsman (1922 - 2013) was a distinguished swordsman (fencing) of Zagreb’s Makabi in the period between two world wars. After the WW2, he lived in the town of Santa Margherita Ligure beside Genoa and he worked with antiquities. Source: HDA, Ponova, property registration, kut. 670. – KZZ