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J. Kolanović, Holocaust in Croatia - Documentation and research perspectives, Arh. vjesn., god. 39 (1996) str. 157-174 religious community in Split which contains 8 boxes of archival material for the period of 1861-1943. This includes correspondence with DELASE from Genoa about assistance and aid to the Jews during World War II. Documentation about Jewish casualties kept in the Croatian State Archive and other archives and institutions is available for research. Croatian State Archive is taking all measures necessary to preserve, protect and analyse all the documentation about Jewish casualties. In November 1990, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Croatia provided copies of the documentation about Jewish casualties not thus far available to the public to experts from the Yad Vashem, memorial museum in Jerusalem. 3. THE "DOTRŠČINA" PROJECT: The citizens of Zagreb-Revolutionaries, Anti-Fascists and victims of Fascist terror 1941-1945. An attempt to work up biographies of the Jews killed in that period. On the territory of the former Yugoslavia there have often been manipulations with the data regarding the victims of World War II. As an example we mention the number of victims allegedly killed in the notorious Ustasha camp Jasenovac

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. The number of Serbs, Jews and Gypsies killed in Jasenovac, found regularly in all the literature, was given as more than 700,000. Any contradiction to such an assertion was at the same time punishable and politically condemned

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. Only recently has Vladimir Žerjavić, shown, using a demographic method and on the basis of the sources kept in the Croatian State Archive, that the maximum possible number of Serbs killed in Jasenovac could have been 50,000. Together with 12,000 Croats and Muslims, 13,000 Jews and 10,000 Gypsies, the total number of victims killed in Jasenovac totalled 85,000 at the most

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. The manipulation began when the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia reported to the International Reparation Commission in Paris that the estimate of war 15 See: Dr. Radomir Bulatović, Koncentracioni logor Jasenovac, s posebnim osvrtom na Gradinu. Svjetlost, Sarajevo, 1990. Dr. Bulatović claims that 1,110,929 people were killed in Jasenovac, the majority of them Serbs. In a TV show "Porota", shown November 13, 1989, in Belgrade, were among other guests, dr. Milan Buiajić spoke, the film Jasenovac, directed by Lordan Zafranović, was shown, and dr. Srboljub Živanović stated that at least 700,000 people were killed in Jasenovac. 16 This was one piece of evidence in the proceeding against dr. Franjo Tuđman. The Encyclopedia of the Croatian History and Culture, published by Školska knjiga, Zagreb, was prohibited because it showed realistic figures of the Jasenovac victims. 17 See: Vladimir Žerjavić, Opsesije i megalomanije oko Jasenovca i Bleiburga. Published by Globus, Zagreb 1992; same author, Manipulacije žrtvama drugog sy/etskog rata 1941-1945, Časopis za suvremenu povijest, Zagreb 24(3), Zagreb, 1992, 149-163. 171