Armin Schreiner

Who is Armin Schreiner?

Armin Mordekhai Schreiner was influential Croatian industrialist, banker, Jewish activist and member of the first Freemasonry Jewish Lodge Zagreb No. 1090 independent order of B'nai B'rith.

Schreiner was born on February 25, 1874 to Yaakov and Khana Schreiner. He was Jewish, considered himself non-Zionists and was married to Roza Schreiner. He and his wife had six children; daughters Mira and Ella, and sons; Leo, Ferdinand, Hadumi, Vladimir, and Otto. He was the owner of multiple factories, among them brick factory "Zagorka" in Bedekovčina. He was also the vice president of "Gradska štedionica" and vice president of the "Industrialists Union".

Schreiner's suffered terrible devastation during the Holocaust. Schreiner was killed at the Jasenovac concentration camp in 1941. His wife and daughter were killed on August 1941, at the Pag concentration camp. His son Vladimir was killed in 1941 at Jadovno concentration camp, son Otto in 1941 at Thessaloniki, and son Ferdinand, with his 7-year-old daughter Helga, in 1942 at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Schreiner son Arie was the only one who survived the Holocaust.