Slavko Goldstein is a Croatian Jewish writer, publisher and politician.
Background
Slavko Goldstein was born in Sarajevo. He spent his childhood in Karlovac, where his father Ivo was notable bookseller. At the beginning of the Second World War, his father, Ivo, was murdered by the Ustaše at the Jadovno concentration camp.
Slavko, his mother Lea, and his brother Daniel ("Danko") escaped and joined the Partisans with whome thay stayed until the end of the war.
Career
His family was originally from Tuzla. When the war ended, Slavko was only 17. He obtained the rank of lieutenant.
He lived a few years in a kibbutz.
In the mid 1950s he returned to Yugoslavia. He studied literature and philosophy at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb, but he never graduated.
Goldstein worked as a journalist, editor and writer in many Croatian newspapers. He wrote screenplays for several Yugoslav World World War II films such as Signal Over the City (Signali nad gradom, 1960) and Operation Stadium (Akcija stadion.
1977, co-written with Dušan Vukotić).
He edited more than 150 books, and as a publisher, he worked on about 400 titles. From 2001 to 2005 he was the president of the Council of the Jasenovac Memorial Center.
Politics
He was a founder of the Croatian Social Liberal Party (Croatian Social-Liberal Party) and was the party"s first president, from 1989-1990.
Membership
After the World World War II Goldstein participated in the war for Israel independence as a member of Israel Defense Forces.