Alexander family ancestors moved to Zagreb from Güssing in Austria.
For a century, the family played an important role in the economic and social life of Zagreb.
Until 1941 and the establishment of the Independent State of Croatia the Alexanders were a large clan.
Counting all of their deceased and still living members, including also the descendants of the female line, there were 224 Alexanders in seven generations.
[1][2] The members of the family who were murdered during the Holocaust: Zora Marić born Alexander (1895-1944 Auschwitz),and her husband Artur Marić (born Mayer; Zagreb, 1889 – Petrinja, 1941); Gjuro (Đuro/Duka) Alexander (1895-1941), his wife Ines born Altstätter (1896-1941) and their son Miljenko (1924-1941); Otto Alexander (1883-1944) and his mother-in-law Frieda Weiss (-1944); Zlata/Aurelija Breyer born Alexander (1875-1942) and her husband Žiga (=Sigismund) Breyer (b. in Križevci, Croatia; 1866–1942); Stanko Kreč (-1941);Ella Boran-Plachte born Marić (1893-1943) and her second husband Dr. Filip Boran (Bornstein; -1943); Ilka Alexander (1869-1942 Jasenovac concentration camp) and Otto Vinski (1877-1942 Jasenovac concentration camp).