Sljeme is a trunk-making company in Croatia founded in 1921 and held a Royal warrant of appointment to the court of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia from 1931 to 1941.

After World War II, communists came to power in Croatia and nationalized private companies, including Sljeme.

Because the company manufactured "bourgeois" luxury goods and supplied them to the royal family, it was considered to be "politically incorrect."

The following year, Samuel Gati continued his trunk-making business with his newly founded company, Sljeme.

Samuel Gati was no exception: he was arrested and detained first at Crikvenica and then Kraljevica and was later moved to the Rab concentration camp, all under the rule of Fascist Italy.