Čakovec, Croatia

Holocaust Scroll
of the Holy Community of Cakovec
(Čakovec, Croatia)

46°23' / 16°26'

Translation of
Megilat ha-shoa shel kehilat kodesh Cakovec

Editor: Moshe Etz-Hayyim (Tibor Grunwald)

Published in Tel Aviv 1977

Acknowledgments

This is a translation of: Megilat ha-shoa shel kehilat kodesh Cakovec (Holocaust scroll of the holy community of Cakovec),
Editor: Moshe Etz-Hayyim (Tibor Grunwald), Published: Tel Aviv 1977 (H,Sc 194 pages)

Note: The original book can be seen online at the NY Public Library site: Cakovec

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Translated by Yocheved Klausner

	Map of the Medimurje Region	7

Part I: 1790-1941

I.	Remember - Never Forget	9
II.	Cakovec in the Medimurje land	10
III.	Dates	11
IV.	The Era	12

Section 1: Beginnings

V.	Founding the Cakovec community	17
VI.	The Cakovec community in the 19^th Century	19
	Building the synagogue	19
	R'I. Schwartz	23
	Commerce and industry	26
	The social and political situation	31

Section 2: Forecast

VII.	The Jugoslavic Period	41
	The new regime	42
	Economy	49
	The Jewish community	51
	Rabbi Dr. A. Greenwald	55
	Dr. L. Schwartz	72
	The prophecy of Holocaust and Revival	78
	"The Cakovec Regulations"	80
	Education	83
	The synagogue and the court	85
	The Zionist Cakovec	91
	Otto Jungwirt	92
	Z.O.D. - the Organization of the Jewish Youth	93
	WIZO organization	99
	M. C. O. - The local Zionist Organization	100
	BEITAR	101
	The New Zionist Organization in town	103

Part II: 1941-1945

	* Days of Holocaust *
VIII.	The Hungarian Occupation	107
	The arrest of the young people	110
	The mobilization to labor camps	114
	The Cakovec martyrs murdered in Croatia and Serbia	116
	Racist decrees in Cakovec	118
	Partisans	119

Section 3: The Ending

	* The Holocaust *
IX.	Sudden Horror	123
X.	The End	131
XI.	Cakovec Day in Auschwitz	135
XII.	YIZKOR for the Cakovec Martyrs	138
	Alphabetical list of the martyrs	139
XIII.	After the Terrible Fire	145
XIV.	Those who Returned from Hell	146

Section 4: The Remnant

XV.	Upon the Ruins of our Community	153
	List of 68 who returned (1945)	157
	List of those who returned to Cakovec	160
	Additional list	160
XVI.	The Community is Making Aliya to Zion	162
	The unveiling of a Memorial Monument in Cakovec	163
	Dargo Singer z”l	165
XVII.	The Cakovec Community is Erased	167
	Dr. Polinich Emanuel	167
	Ceremony in memory of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising	179
XVIII.	The Cakovec Community in Israel
	The memorial day	173
	List of those who died after the Holocaust	176
	Avi Greenwald	177
XIX.	Members of the Community in Eretz Israel	179
XX.	The Story Shall be Told…	180

* * *

	* Sources and Bibliography	181
	* A Summary in Jugoslavian	5-12

Important Remark: The events and persons mentioned in this Holocaust Chronicle have been collected from sources and documents, interviews and conversations, news and memories that were put at my disposal. It is very clear to me that many events and names, among them most important ones, are missing. What I have not heard or seen, I cannot put in writing, obviously. I am asking forgiveness from all. Tibi

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