Pintar, John Ivan

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The picture shows the editorial staff of The Voice of Free Croatia sponsored by the Croatian Radio Club in New York, founded in 1969 and still on the air. From left Vinko Kužina, John (Ivan) Pintar (1904-1989), Kurnoslav Mašina (1904-1989) and behind them is Miro Gal.

John I. (Ivan) Pintar was born in Chicago in 1904. As a commercial entrepreneur in 1933, he moved to Zagreb, where he worked as the manager of an American chemical company since 1937. The communist regime in Yugoslavia arrested him in the autumn of 1946 and in early 1947 sentenced him to death in a show trial under charges of being an American spy. Thanks to the mediation of US authorities and the US embassy in Belgrade, his sentence was reduced to 20 years in prison with forced labour. After four years spent in jail in Lepoglava and Srijemska Mitrovica, and after the persistent efforts of the US Department of State and US Ambassador to Belgrade George V. Allen, he was released on December 4, 1950. Upon his return to the United States, he wrote and published a book on the communist regime and his prison experience entitled Four Years in Tito's Hell. He dedicated the book, published in Buenos Aires in 1954, in which he critically spoke about the Communist regime in Yugoslavia, to all victims of communism.

Location

Chicago
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New York, United States
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Zagreb, Croatia
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Birth place

Chicago

Birth date

1904

Creator at

Jere Jareb Collection

Author(s) of this page

Mihaljević, Josip

References

Pintar, John I. 1954. Four Years in Tito’s Hell. Buenos Aires: H.P.K.

Pintar, John I. 1995. Četiri godine u Titovu paklu. Zagreb: Hrvatsko književno društvo sv. Ćirila i Metoda.

Jurčić, Martina, interview by Mihaljević, Josip, December 08, 2017. COURAGE Registry Oral History Collection

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