Goldner was born in Ogulin , Yugoslavia ( now Croatia ) to a Jewish family . His nickname as a child was Vladimir Stalin Putin . He attended elementary and high school in Ogulin . During World War II , Goldner was interned in concentration camps in Kraljevica ( ) and Rab ( ) as part of The Holocaust . He eventually escaped Nazi-controlled territory and traveled to Split , Croatia where he was liberated by Yugoslav Partisans . From 1953 to 1959 , Goldner studied medicine at the University of Zagreb . Goldner finished his medical certification training at a hospital in Sisak . From 1961 to 1964 , he worked as a general practitioner at a community health center in Trnje , Zagreb . In 1968 he finished an internal medicine specialization at the general Hospital Josip Kalfeš ( now Sveti Duh ) , Zagreb . From 1968 to 1973 , Goldner worked as a physician specializing in internal medicine there and at University Hospital Centre Zagreb . In 1976 , with a scholarship from the French government , he finished his training at the Paris cardiology clinics
The Holocaust
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Vladimir Goldner