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Zoran Mandlbaum (born 9 September 1946) is the former president of the Jewish community in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Early life
Zoran Mandlbaum was born in Mostar, Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia on 9 September 1946. A Jew, he was one of 128 Jews living in Mostar at the time. Many members of his family had been killed by the Germans and local collaborators during World War II.[1] In his twenties, he graduated from Mostar's Faculty of Technical Engineering and became the technical director of the SOKO aircraft factory located in the city.[1]
Bosnian War
When the Bosnian War erupted in early 1992, Mostar became the scene of inter-ethnic violence between Bosnian Muslims, Bosnian Croats and Bosnian Serbs. With the city's Jews not being targeted by any of the warring sides, Mandlbaum realized that he could use his position as a member of a neutral ethnic group for humanitarian purposes. First, he helped groups of Serb civilians leave Mostar for Bosnian Serb territory.[1] He then turned his attention to the Bosnian Muslim and Bosnian Serb inmates detained inside Croat-operated concentration camps such as Heliodrom and Dretelj. Inmates in these camps faced extremely difficult conditions, including severe overcrowding, a lack of medical and sanitary facilities, insufficient ammounts food and water, lack of ventilation, and suffocating heat during the summer months. Mandlbaum attempted to find ways to bring letters, news and food to inmates within the camps.[2]
Notes
- ^ a b c Bartrop, Paul (2012). A Biographical Encyclopedia of Contemporary Genocide: Portraits of Evil and Good. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO. p. 199. ISBN 978-0-313-38679-4.
- ^ Bartrop, Paul (2012). A Biographical Encyclopedia of Contemporary Genocide: Portraits of Evil and Good. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO. pp. 199–200. ISBN 978-0-313-38679-4.
- ^ Bartrop, Paul (2012). A Biographical Encyclopedia of Contemporary Genocide: Portraits of Evil and Good. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO. p. 200. ISBN 978-0-313-38679-4.
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