Otto Miskolczy, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Croatian entrepreneur
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Place of Birth: Vinkovci, Vukovar-Syrmia County, Croatia
About Otto Miskolczy
- Otto Miskolczy (Croatian: Oto Miškolci: 23 January 1909 – 1978) was Croatian entrepreneur and World War II Partisan. Miskolczy was born in Vinkovci on January 23, 1909 to a notable Croatian Jewish family Miskolczy.
- His brother was Eugen Miskolczy.
- In Vinkovci he finished public elementary school and Gymnasium in 1927.
- In 1931 he graduated from the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb.
- After graduation his father sent him on a one-year specialization in Trieste, hoping that he will lead the family trading company after return.
- At first Miskolczy worked with his father at the family company, but in 1937 he founded his own company "Oto Miškolci" za trgovinu i proizvodnju zemaljskih proizvoda (for trade and manufacture of land products).
- His mother inherited the family company from his father.
- During World War II, in order to avoid arrest and deportation, all members of Miskolczy family have escaped to Croatian Littoral which was then under Fascist Italy.
- Miskolczy settled in Crikvenica.
- But soon Fascists yielded under Nazis pressure, and all Jews were interned in camps on the coast and islands.
- Miskolczy was imprisoned at the concentration camp Kraljevica.
- In 1943 Italian fascist closed the camp in Kraljevica and moved all prisoners to the Rab concentration camp.
- After the capitulation of Italy and the liberation of the camp, Miskolczy joined the Partisans.
- There worked as a stenographer and stenotypist.
- After the war he worked for the SR Croatia Government in Split, and later at the Ministry of supply in Zagreb.
- He soon retired due to the deteriorated health and returned to Vinkovci, where he married and helped his wife Ela in the newly formed company.
- As a most Croatian Jews, Miskolczy was deeply disappointed with the Yugoslavian government and made Aliyah to Israel with his wife and mother Berta.
- He died in Israel in 1978.
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