David Meisel

About him: https://zbl.lzmk.hr/?p=1282

He moved to Karlovac in 1906. He was a bishop and secretary of the Jewish community. He helped a large number of orphans, and in 1931 founded a child support fund. One of his patrons Ivo Socačić led a freight forwarding company in the premises of the Obiteka house. Musically educated, he initially organized a mixed choir in the synagogue, then conductor of the Nada Craftsmanship, and from 1906, member of "Zora". As a lyrical tenor it was noted in the Zorina Quartet (with Hauptfeld, Badovinche and Novosel). In 1922 he became the choir of the First Croatian Singing Society "Zora". He was determined, talented and devoted to the choir's work. Strict, with great work discipline and energy, he is practicing a very demanding program with the choir: oratory of Bozidar Širole Sacrifice of Abraham, Anton Dimitrova's Stabat mater, Mass in Es-duru Franz Schubert etc. Dr. Zora conducts his greatest singing successes Zagreb won the II. (1923), guest throughout the whole of the then state, and especially her European visits to Germany (1927) and Belgium (1935). "The personality of absolute hearing and the almost despotic relationship with the orchestra and choir can only be explained by the great success of Zore and her performance in Belgium, which has not been overcome until today," wrote Zlatko Pintar in the memory of David Meisla ("Karlovac Weekly ", 1967). Meisel was one of the most prominent and most beloved Karlovac citizens, a Croatian conductor, a fanatic promoter of the interests of the First Croatian Singing Society, and yet one of the first victims of the Holocaust in Karlovac. Together with Ivo Goldstein and Philip Reiner, he was arrested on April 13, 1941. According to the book of Slavko Goldstein, returning in 1941, he was first taken to a concentration camp "Danica" near Koprivnica, from where he was briefly able to save some Karlovac friends. He was quickly arrested again. He was killed in the Jadovno camp, together with his son Zlatko, aged 21.

Text taken from the book The first Croatian singing company "Zora" Karlovac, 1858 - 2008 [https://translate.google.co.il/translate?hl=iw&sl=hr&tl=en&u=http%3...]

Testimony: https://yvng.yadvashem.org/nameDetails.html?language=en&itemId=7569043

• David Meisel was born in Olomouc, Czechoslovakia in 1885 to Josef and Yulia. He was a cantor and married to Olga nee Munic. Prior to WWII he lived in Karlovac, Yugoslavia. During the war he was in Karlovac, Yugoslavia.
• David was murdered in the Shoah.
• This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed here) submitted by his great-granddaughter, Tena Buncic Korkutz