| Daniel Ivin | |
| Birth Name: | Danko Goldstein |
| Birth Date: | 16 April 1932 |
| Birth Place: | Karlovac, Yugoslavia |
| Nationality: | Croatian |
| Other Names: | Danijel Ivin |
| Occupation: | Writer; activist |
| Known For: | Co-founding the Croatian Social Liberal Party (HSLS) |
| Parents: | Ivo and Lea Goldstein |
| Relatives: | Slavko Goldstein (brother) Ivo Goldstein (nephew) |
Daniel Ivin (born Danko Goldstein; 16 April 1932 – 20 June 2021) was a Croatian writer, politician and human rights activist.
Ivin was born in April 1932, and raised in Karlovac, in a Jewish family.[1] His elder brother was Slavko Goldstein.[2] [3]
His father, Ivo ("Izchak") Goldstein, was a book dealer in Karlovac. In 1941, his father was murdered by the Ustaše at the Jadovno concentration camp.[4]
As a boy, Danko joined the Partisans and served as a courier. At the end of 1942, he watched over Ustaše captive Jure Francetić and informed the Partisan headquarters about the latter's health.[1] He changed his name from Danko to Daniel/Danijel, and surname from Goldstein to Ivin (meaning son of Ivo) in honour of his late father.
From 1949–52, Ivin lived in Israel and served in Israel Defense Forces.[1] Upon his return to Croatia he worked as a journalist. Later he worked under Franjo Tuđman at the "Institute for history of the labor movement" in Zagreb. In 1966, for his attempt to start the non-Communist newspaper Slobodna riječ (Free word), he was sentenced to several months in prison under charges of organizing the assassination of Josip Broz Tito.[1]
After being released, Ivin lived in Switzerland and Great Britain.[1] In 1989, together with his brother Slavko, Ivin founded the Croatian Social Liberal Party.[5]
In 1993 he co-founded the Croatian Helsinki Committee, serving as president in 2007.[6] In 2012 he was elected as a new president of the "Council of the Croatian anti-fascists".[7]
Ivin died on 20 June 2021, at the age of 89.[8]