Daniel Ivin

Daniel Ivin (born Danko Goldstein; 16 April 1932 – 20 June 2021) was a Croatian writer, politician and human rights activist.

Biography Ivin was born in April 1932, and raised in Karlovac, in a Jewish family. His elder brother was Slavko Goldstein.

His father, Ivo ("Izchak") Goldstein, was a book dealer in Karlovac. In 1941, his father was murdered by the Ustaše at the Jadovno concentration camp.

As a boy, Danko joined the Partisans and served as a courier. At the end of 1942, he watched over Ustaše captive Jure Francetić and informed the Partisan headquarters about the latter's health.

In 1993 he co-founded the Croatian Helsinki Committee, serving as president in 2007. In 2012 he was elected as a new president of the "Council of the Croatian anti-fascists".

Ivin died on 20 June 2021, at the age of 89.

Works Hrvatsko pitanje: Nitko ne gleda kroz prozor sam (1999), Nakladni Zavod Matice Hrvatske, Zagreb Revolution und Evolution in Jugoslawien (1968), Francke Verlag, Bern