Nationality Croat Occupation Writer, historian | Name Mirjana Gross Role Writer | |
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Born 22 May 1922 ( 1922-05-22 ) Zagreb, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (present-day Zagreb, Croatia) Died July 23, 2012, Zagreb, Croatia | ||
Mirjana Gross (born Mirjam Gross; 22 May 1922 – 23 July 2012) was a notable Yugoslav-Croatian Jewish historian and writer.
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Life and career
Gross was born in Zagreb to Jewish parents, Mavro and Ella Gross, on 22 May 1922. During World War II and the occupation of Yugoslavia, Gross and her parents hid out near Zagreb in the Village Brdovečko Drenje until 1943, when they were arrested by the Nazis. She and her mother were deported to the Ravensbrück concentration camp where they worked as slaves for "Siemens & Halske AG" producing bombs. Her father was deported to Buchenwald. Gross's father and other members of her family perished during Holocaust; she and her mother, however, survived.
After the war she was a renowned history professor. Throughout her career, Gross studied Croatian history of 19th century and historical methodology. In the 1970s, she achieved several research projects, which were presented in books that are among the major works of modern Croatian history. She authored several books about Party of Rights ideology, history, Ante Starčević and Eugen Kvaternik. In 1997, Institute for Croatian History at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb dedicated and published a representative collection of scientific articles in Gross's honor.
Death
Gross died on 23 July 2012, and was buried at the Mirogoj Cemetery.
Honors
In 2001, Gross received the Josip Juraj Strossmayer award for the most successful and achieved scientific work "Authentic Party of Rights", published in Croatia and Croatian diaspora. In 2005, Gross was named among Croatia's 35 most important women in history.