FRAGMENTS FROM THE HISTORY OF THE CROATIAN JEWS DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR (1914-1918)
FRAGMENTS FROM THE HISTORY OF THE CROATIAN JEWS DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR (1914-1918)

Summary/Abstract: During the First World War Jews suffered the same as other Croatian citizens. They were mobilized and sent to fight on all fronts, some died and were buried a long way from their homes, some were wounded or left permanently disabled. They effectively froze their social activities, and devoted themselves to volunteer work. At the end of the war, they were faced with many problems, impoverished (apart from a few individuals who made their fortune during the war), often the target of the “Green cadres”, whose looting and burning scared many Jews into migrating to urban centres or abroad. One of the Jews’ greatest problems was the collapse of Austria-Hungary, which left them divided among several newly-created states, which in turn forced further migrations, when the local Jews were unable to obtain Yugoslav citizenship, and were forced to either move back to their “home” countries, or migrate to other parts of Europe, or even America.

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