Doseljavanje, razvoj, stradanje i nestajanje Židova i najbogatije židovske obitelji iz Daruvara – Obitelj Gross u žrvnju dvaju totalitarizama
Immigration, development, tribulations and the disappearance of the Jews, as well as the richest Jewish family in Daruvar - the Gross family in the grindstone between two totalitarianisms

Summary/Abstract: This paper is based on sources and works which speak of the arrival, the life, and the work of the Jewish family Gross in Daruvar. They arrived in the second half of the 19th century as the family of the first Jewish rabbi in Daruvar. The first part analyses the arrival of Jews in Daruvar and the development of their community up to World War II. The second part speaks of the arrival of rabbi Isaac Gross to Daruvar with his family, the life of the family, and its development up to World War II, with a special accent on the family of Solomon Gross. That family will, in a short period from the beginning up to the middle of the 20th century, become the richest family and the proverbial masters of Daruvar. The third part discusses and analyses the downfall of the Jews of Daruvar and the Gross family during World War II. The Jewish population of Daruvar went down by almost 80% and more than half the Gross family members died in that war. The fourth part consists of documents speaking of the continuation of Jewish troubles in the new communist totalitarianism, not only by way of confiscation of land, but also by verdicts over living and deceased Gross family members. The fifth action analyses those documents and the way Jews died after World War II. In the end, the conclusion is that the two totalitarian systems, the Nazi and communist one, each in its own way influenced the fact that there are almost no Jewish people in Daruvar today. The members of the Gross family are completely extinct.

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