ARHIVSKI VJESNIK 39. (ZAGREB, 1996.)

Strana - 169

J. Kolanović, Holocaust in Croatia - Documentation and research perspectives, Arh. vjesn., god. 39 (1996) str. 157-174 Now stored in the Croatian State Archive (the former Archive of the Institute for the History of the Labour Movement); Fragments of the archival materials for the camps in Đakovo and Lobor-Grad for the years 1941-1944, 4 boxes, are stored as separate entities. 2.1.11. COLLECTION OF THE ARCHIVAL MATERIALS ON THE HISTORY OF THE LABOUR MOVEMENT OF ZAGREB (Zb. PRP): 1945-1950; 24 boxes, app. 17,500 pages. App. 45% of the archival material relates to the Jews. The materials contain questionnaires and files of the deceased, missing and executed citizens of Zagreb from April 6, 1941 until the end of the war. 2.1.12. COLLECTION OF PRINTED MATERIAL: 1941-1945; 7,000 pieces of which approximately 200 relate to the Jews. Collection of printed material dated 1941-1945: State Archive's collection of obligatorily stored items. Contains advertisements, posters, leaflets, booklets etc. For research on the Holocaust: regulations on prohibition for the Jews to appear in public places, at events, in city parks or public baths, requiring Jews to wear the obligatory Star of David on the left sleeve, calling on the Jews to move to the ghettos and to register their properties, as well as prohibitions against miscegenation etc. 2.2. CROATIAN HISTORICAL MUSEUM Documentation concerning the Jews stored today in the Croatian Historical Museum was collected by the Museum of the Revolution of the People of Croatia founded in 1945. In 1991, this museum became a part of the Croatian Historical Museum

14

. This material is very diverse: a minor part consists of official records brought to the museum, and the larger part consists of the collections of printed material, books, memoirs and private archives (diaries, letters, photos). Although all is stored in only 3 boxes it is a very thorough and important documentation for Holocaust research. The minor part concerns Jewish history until 1933 and consists mainly of advertisements and magazines. From 1933 until the beginning of World War II, there were considerable contributions from the Jews to the Syndicalists and the Communist Movement, as recorded in memoirs and police files of individual Jewish ComLucija Benyovsky, Fašistički logor Kampor na Rabu prema sačuvanim bilješkama Elvire Kohn, in: Antisemitizam, holokaust, antifašizam, 214-223.103. Most of these works are researches on the Jasenovac camp. Based on the latest researches and documentation that has recently become accessible, it is now the historians to write the history of that camp and what really happened there. 14 A detailed presentation by Lucija Benyovsky, Dokumentarna grada o Židovima, available in the Croatian Historical Museum from the period of 1918-1945, Antisemitizam, holokaust, antifašizam, 234-245. 169