Ivan Žorž

Ivana Žorža Street starts from the stairs opposite the church on Donja Drenova and descends all the way to Ivo Lola Ribara Street and is one of the longest Drenovska streets.

Ivan Žorž, Nini as he is remembered today by members of the Drenov family Žorž, was born on July 10, 1926 on Drenova. How and when he got involved in the defense of his homeland and his Drenova, unfortunately we do not know, and neither do his own, still alive Žorževi. On the web address Archives of Arolsen On September 25, 1944, he was brought to Dachau concentration camp and held under prisoner number 111417. Less than a month after his arrival in Dachau, he was relocated on 22 October to the Neuengamme Camp from Hamburg, from where he never returned.

I will repeat here what I wrote in the article about Orlando Kučić:

Spartaco Črnjarić, my colleague and friend, sent me an e-mail that his mother, Drenovčanka Agricola Črnjarić, told him:

Mat said to me: On Sunday, young men from approx. 16 flights from Dolnja Drenova go to Lokva -Tito Francetić, Ferruccio Superina, Orlando Kučić and Ivan Žorž. On Lokve they wanted partisans for Učka. Mat says Žoržu doesn't even have a real name Ivan (thinking probably Nina, as they called him). His parents were on the border, his father was a stonemason, he would have known more than them to lead Milivoj Brozina who is his and nan's seed .

Spartaco Črnjarić

Interestingly, the Germans kept very detailed documentation of the inmates. For example, for Ivan, it is stated in one document that he had 850 Italian lira upon his arrival. However, no document mentions the cause or method of death, both for Ivan and for all the inmates.

Archives of Arolsen – The International Centre for Nazi Persecution, formerly the International Search Service (ITS), is an internationally run centre for documentation, information and research on Nazi persecution, forced labour and the Holocaust in Nazi Germany and its occupied regions. The archive contains about 30 million documents from concentration camps, details of forced labor and files on exiled persons. The ITS preserves the original documents and sheds light on the fate of those persecuted by the Nazis. The archives have been available to researchers since 2007. May 2019 The Centre uploaded around 13 million documents and made them available to the public online. The archives are currently digitized and transcribed via the Zooniverse crowdsourcing platform. As of July 2020, around 27% The archive has been copied.