Metadata: Personal Fonds Slavko Zvezdić (Štern)
Collection
- Country:
- Serbia
- Holding institution:
- Jewish Historical Museum
- Holding institution (official language):
- Јеврејски историјски музеј (Jevrejski istorijski muzej)
- Postal address:
- Kralja Petra 71A, 21000 Belgrade
- Phone number:
- (+381) 112622-634
- Web address:
- http://www.jimbeograd.org/
- Reference number:
- AJIM, LF - SZ
- Title:
- Personal Fonds Slavko Zvezdić (Štern)
- Title (official language):
- Лични фонд-Славко Звездић (Штерн)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Štern, Slavko Zvezdić
- Date(s):
- 1920/1989
- Language:
- Serbian
- Croatian
- Hebrew
- German
- Extent:
- 0.3 linear metre (1 box)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
- The collection comprises material created by Slavko Zvezdić as the president of the Jewish Community of Split, mostly his personal documents and correspondence.
- Archival history:
- His family donated his documents to the Jewish Historical Museum Belgrade in 1989.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- As a high school student in Zagreb, Slavko Zvezdić was a member of the Literary Section and the Makabi Fencing Section. From 1919 to 1939 he lived in Sarajevo, but remained a member of the Makabi club in Zagreb. He was the champion of the Fencing Section (in floret), and he participated in many championships of Makabi, called Makabijade, and other domestic and international competitions. He spent World War II in captivity in Nazi Germany; his first wife and child were killed in the Holocaust. After the war, he worked in Belgrade, and from 1956 he lived in Split, where he worked at the "Dalmacijacement". He was president of the Jewish Community of Split for almost 20 years and was entered in the Golden Book of Keren Kajemet. He received several post-war decorations.
- Access points: locations:
- Split
- Access points: persons/families:
- Zvezdić (Štern), Slavko
- Subject terms:
- Correspondence
- Jewish community
- Personal records
- System of arrangement:
- There is no system of arrangement.
- Finding aids:
- No finding aids have been created.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Historical Archives of Belgrade
- Author of the description:
- Bojan Zorić; Jewish Historical Museum; 2020