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Croatian heros in the course of history
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Peter Tomich Croatian-USA hero of Pearl Harbor has a monument in Ljubuski in 2023
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A monument to distinguished Croatian-American hero, Peter Tomich (Peter Tonich Herzeg), was unveiled in the town of Ljubuški in Bosnia Herzegovina in 2023, near his birthplace. For a long time, the origin of Peter Tonich Herzeg was not know. His relatives were discovered in the town of Ljubuški in Bosnia and Herzegovina, neighboring Croatia. We show an educative video about the history of Chief Peter Tomich, who died du
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Zoran Filipovic Zoro distinguished Croatian photographer
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Professional photographer and writer, born in 1959 in Brčko (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Zoran Filipović has lived in Croatia's capital Zagreb since 1978 where, in the last few years, he's been turning more and more towards graphic and product design. As photographer, he has worked and seen his work published in a number of distinguished world magazines, such as Paris Match, Life, Photo, Le Figaro Magazine, Die Zeit, Frankfurter Allgemei
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Peter Tomich recipient of the USA Medal of Honor described in Croatian film "Heros are Never Forgotten"
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Vladimir Novak: Croatians in America, fascinating photomonograph published in 2018
Submitted By Nenad N. Bach and Darko Žubrinić
| Published 10/27/2019
| Companies , Croatian Cuisine , Croatian Life Stories , Culture And Arts , Education , Entertainment , History , Humor And Wisdom , In Memoriam , People , Politics , Restaurants , Science , Sports , About us , Croatian Language , Croatian Heroes , Croatian spirituality , Music | Unrated
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 Vladimir Novak (1928-2016)
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Michael J. Novosel of Croatian origin recipient of the Medal of Honor for saving 5589 wounded people
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During the Vietnam war, Novosel flew 2,543 missions and extracted 5,589 wounded personnel, among them his own son Michael J. Novosel Jr. The following week, Michael Jr. returned the favor by extracting his father after he was shot down. On the morning of October 2, 1969, Novosel set out to evacuate a group of South Vietnamese soldiers who were surrounded by several thousand North Vietnamese light infantry near the Cambodian border. Radio com
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Peter Tomich 1893-1941 recipient of the Medal of Honor for his courage at Pearl Harbour in 1941
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Peter Tomich, Croatian-American hero born in Bosnia and Herzegovina (town of Prolog), one of 15 men to receive the Medal of Honor for his actions at Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941. Named for him were a destroyer escort ship in 1943, the USS Tomich, and Tomich Hall in 1989, where the Navy's Senior Enlisted Academy in Newport, R.I., is housed. Medal of Honor is a film about double heroism. One hero, Peter Tomich, made an inst
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Stjepan Radic 1871-1928 a great Croatian politician, humanist and martyr
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In 2018 we commemorate a tragic death of Stjepan Radić, one of the greatest Croatian politicians and humanists in history (on the photo with his grandchildren), assassinated in 1928 in the Belgrade Parliament. We provide an articl written by Dr. Ante Cuvalo, an information about a new street in the Prague bearing his name (and his wife Marija was a Czech schoolteacher), as well as an article about him written by a Dan
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Esther Gitman's interview 2016 about Archbishop Alojzije Stepinac and his role in saving the Jews in Croatia
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Dr Esther Gitman analized about 5000 archival documents kept in various Croatian archives. Especially important among them are 500 signed petitions for the rescue of Jews in Croatia during the WW2. Some of these documents contain as many as 150 names, signed by ordinary people, who risked their lifes in order to save the lifes of their endangered Jewish neighbors and friends. Furthermore, according to Dr Girtman, TH
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The Story of Ilija Letica by distinguished Croatian filmmaker Jakov Sedlar
Submitted By Nenad N. Bach and Darko Žubrinić
| Published 11/14/2015
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We present the readers of the CROWN a fascinating documentary by Croatian filmmaker Jakov Sedlar about the life and work of Ilija Letica in the USA, about his very successful LETICA CORPORATION in the USA, with a special emphasis on his ties with Croatia and on his life philosophy. LETICA is a multi-faceted packaging company with diverse talent and technologies to support business on a number of fronts. The company
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