Daniel Ivin
{{Short description|Croatian writer (1932–2021)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2021}}
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| birth_name = Danko Goldstein
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1932|04|16|df=y}}
| birth_place = Karlovac, Yugoslavia
{{small|(now Karlovac, Croatia)}}
| death_date = {{death date and age|2021|06|20|1932|04|16|df=y}}
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| nationality = Croatian
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| other_names = Danijel Ivin
| occupation = Writer; activist
| known_for = Co-founding the Croatian Social Liberal Party (HSLS)
| parents = Ivo and Lea Goldstein
| relatives = Slavko Goldstein (brother)
Ivo Goldstein (nephew)}}
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.{{cite book |author= Ninoslav Kopač |author-link= Ninoslav Kopač |date=2012|title=Svjedok histerije |publisher=Serb Democratic Forum |place=Zagreb |page=374 |isbn=978-953-57313-2-0}} His elder brother was Slavko Goldstein.{{cite web|url=http://resources.ushmm.org/hsv/person_view.php?PersonId=4969546|title=Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database: Daniel Ivin|publisher=United States Holocaust Memorial Museum|accessdate=13 February 2013}}{{cite web|url=http://www.slobodnadalmacija.hr/Spektar/tabid/94/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/98488/Default.aspx|title=Zatezalo demantira Tuđmana: U Jadovnu su ustaše ubili 40.000 ljudi u 132 dana|author=Danko Plevnik|date=10 April 2010|publisher=Slobodna Dalmacija|accessdate=13 February 2013|language=hr|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140112095321/http://www.slobodnadalmacija.hr/Spektar/tabid/94/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/98488/Default.aspx|archivedate=12 January 2014}}
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.{{cite news|url=http://db.yadvashem.org/names/nameDetails.html?itemId=1897363&language=en#!prettyPhoto|title=Ivo Izchak Goldstein|publisher=Yad Vashem|work=Pages of testimony by Daniel Ivin Goldstein (son)|accessdate=4 September 2017}}
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. He changed his name from Danko to Daniel/Danijel, and surname from Goldstein to Ivin (meaning son of Ivo) in honour of his late father.{{citation needed|date=December 2016}}
From 1949–52, Ivin lived in Israel and served in Israel Defense Forces. Upon his return to Croatia he worked as a journalist. Later he worked under Franjo Tuđman at the "Institute for history of the labor movement" in Zagreb. In 1966, for his attempt to start the non-Communist newspaper Slobodna riječ (Free word), he was sentenced to several months in prison under charges of organizing the assassination of Josip Broz Tito.
After being released, Ivin lived in Switzerland and Great Britain. In 1989, together with his brother Slavko, Ivin founded the Croatian Social Liberal Party.{{cite web|url=http://arhiva.dalje.com/hr-hrvatska/danijel-ivin-u-nedjeljom-u-2--bleiburg-nije-bio-gubiliste/428368|title=Danijel Ivin u Nedjeljom u 2: Bleiburg nije bio gubilište|website=Arhiva.dalje.com|accessdate=9 December 2016}}
In 1993 he co-founded the Croatian Helsinki Committee, serving as president in 2007.{{cite web|url=http://www.jutarnji.hr/danijel-ivin-novi-predsjednik-hho-a/173951|title=Danijel Ivin novi predsjednik HHO-a|date=11 May 2007|publisher=Jutarnji list|accessdate=13 February 2013|language=hr|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140112095033/http://www.jutarnji.hr/danijel-ivin-novi-predsjednik-hho-a/173951|archivedate=12 January 2014}} In 2012 he was elected as a new president of the "Council of the Croatian anti-fascists".{{cite web|url=http://www.novilist.hr/Vijesti/Hrvatska/Daniel-Ivin-novi-predsjednika-Savjeta-antifasista-RH|title=Daniel Ivin novi predsjednika Savjeta antifašista RH|author=HINA|author-link=HINA|date=11 December 2012|publisher=Novi list|accessdate=13 February 2013|language=hr}}
Ivin died on 20 June 2021, at the age of 89.{{cite web|url=https://vijesti.hrt.hr/hrvatska/umro-povjesnicar-i-publicist-daniel-ivin-goldstein-2145216 |title=Umro povjesničar i publicist Daniel Ivin Goldstein |language=Croatian |publisher=HRT.hr |date=21 June 2021 |access-date=23 June 2021}}
Works
- Hrvatsko pitanje: Nitko ne gleda kroz prozor sam (1999), Nakladni Zavod Matice Hrvatske, Zagreb
- Revolution und Evolution in Jugoslawien (1968), Francke Verlag, Bern
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Category:Child soldiers in World War II
Category:20th-century Croatian historians
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Category:Jewish Croatian politicians