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Diana Budisavljević ( née Obexer; 15 January 1891 – 20 August 1978) was an Austrian humanitarian who led a major relief effort in Yugoslavia during World War II.
Mar 28, 2024 · Diana Budisavljević (January 15, 1891-August 20, 1978) was an Austrian woman who lived in Zagreb, Kingdom of Yugoslavia with her husband, Julije, a well-respected doctor. The pair married in 1917 and moved to the city two years later, where Julije founded the surgical clinic at the University of Zagreb.
This article deals with an almost forgotten and recently ‘rediscovered’ story of the autonomous humanitarian operation of Diana Budisavljevic, an Austrian woman who initiated one of the largest and most complex humanitarian operations in Europe during the Second World War.
Nov 2, 2019 · The Diary of Diana Budisavljević tells the story of a Croatian woman, who as a true humanitarian, rescued more than 15,000 children from the hands of the Ustasha, Croatia’s brutal, ultra-nationalist wartime government.
Jul 1, 2016 · Through diary entries made from 23 October 1941 to 7 February 1947, the Austrian, Diana Budisavljević, wife of a prominent Zagreb doctor, Julije Budisavljević, describes her personal commitment and the involvement of her co-workers in organizing and providing assistance to Serbian Orthodox women and children detained in the Ustaša ...
Nov 26, 2021 · Diana Budisavljević learned about the conditions and the imprisoned Serbian and Jewish women and children in the Loborgrad camp, located near Zagreb, at the end of October 1941. She decides to help them, but it is almost hopeless at the beginning.
Nov 17, 2021 · Diana Budisavljević was a well-to-do Austrian married to a renowned doctor in Zagreb when the Axis forces invaded Yugoslavia in April 1941. Soon, a puppet...
