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Name
  
Armin Schreiner

Spouse(s)
  
Roza Schreiner

Occupation
  
Industrialist

Nationality
  
Croat


Armin Schreiner

Born
  
25 March 1874 (
1874-03-25
)
Koprivnica, Austria-Hungary, (now Croatia)

Died
  
29 November 1941(1941-11-29) (aged 67) Jasenovac concentration camp

Children
  
Ella Mira Arie Hadumi Ferdinand Vladimir Otto

Cause of death
  
Murdered in Holocaust

Armin Mordekhai Schreiner (25 February 1874 – 29 November 1941) was influential Croatian industrialist, banker, Jewish activist and member of the first Freemasonry Jewish Lodge Zagreb No. 1090 independent order of B'nai B'rith.

Schreiner was born on 25 February 1874 to Yaakov and Khana Schreiner. He was Jewish, considered himself non-Zionists and was married to Roza Schreiner. He and his wife had six children; daughters Mira (b. 1915) and Ella (b. 1902), and sons; Leo (now Arie Aharoni, b. 1913), Ferdinand (b. 1901), Hadumi (b. 1908), Vladimir (b. 1909), and Otto (b. 1912). He was the owner of multiple factories, among them brick factory "Zagorka" (now "Tondach Hrvatska") in Bedekovčina. He was also the vice president of "Gradska štedionica" (now "Zagrebačka banka") and vice president of the "Industrialists Union".

Schreiner's suffered terrible devastation during the Holocaust. Schreiner was killed at the Jasenovac concentration camp in 1941. His wife and daughter were killed on August 1941, at the Pag concentration camp. His son Vladimir was killed in 1941 at Jadovno concentration camp, son Otto in 1941 at Thessaloniki, and son Ferdinand, with his 7-year-old daughter Helga, in 1942 at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Schreiner son Arie was the only one who survived the Holocaust.

References

Armin Schreiner Wikipedia