Background
Vranetić was born in 1926 in Vrbas, Yugoslavia, and raised in Topusko, Croatia (part of the former Yugoslavia). He grew up in a liberal, middle-class, Catholic household.
Vranetić was born in 1926 in Vrbas, Yugoslavia, and raised in Topusko, Croatia (part of the former Yugoslavia). He grew up in a liberal, middle-class, Catholic household.
Foreign more than two decades, he was Chairman of the Righteous Among the Nations organization. Vranetić began helping Jewish refugees at the age of 17 even though his village largely supported the Nazi-sympathizing Ustašest His first attempt to help a Jewish doctor resulted in a beating from a Croatian soldier that resulted in Vranetić losing hearing in his left ear.
He went on to help many others find secure hiding places and to supply their needs.
After the war, Vranetić continued to communicate with her and other refugees he had helped, eventually moving to Israel in 1963 and marrying Montilio. He was granted honorary Israeli citizenship by the government of Israel.
Widowed in the late 1990s, Vranetić was honored during a memorial ceremony at the Yad Vashem Hall of Remembrance in 2009 when he and six Jewish Holocaust survivors met Pope Benedict XVI.
Vranetić died in Israel on 3 February 2010, aged 84 (not 82, as some sources misreported).
