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J. Kolanović, Holocaust in Croatia - Documentation and research perspectives, Arh. vjesn., god. 39(1996) str. 157-174 munists. On the history of Holocaust and anti-Semitism the following should be given special consideration: Printed material (booklets and books) printed in Belgrade from 1941 to 1943 on anti-Semitism in Serbia during the rule of general Nedić, 1941-1943. Printed material and press-clippings from the newspaper The Independent State of Croatia, from 1941-1945 on the subject of anti-Semitism in Pavelić's NDH. Consider also individual archival documents of the administrative government of the Independent State of Croatia, such as proclamations on the restriction of movement for the Jews, documents about arrests and lists of Jews kept in police offices. The larger part of the collection consists of documents from the camps and about the camps where the Jews were detained. The following should be taken into consideration: records of the workers, prisoner identity cards, prisoner correspondence, interventions of the Italian Red Cross and the International Secretariate for Persons and Information. Materials about Jasenovac camp is stored in a separate file. Special emphasis should be given to statements by the survivors, photos and documents of the Commission on War Crimes as they regard Jasenovac. Memoirs about life in Jasenovac (those of Adolf Friedrich from Zagreb, Egon Berger and Josip Korošec) are also valuable. Finally, the handwritten record of Hrvoje Macanović, survivor of Mauthausen, contains a part of the Mauthausen and Ebensee camps archives. These include lists of the prisoners, maps of the camps, camp files, lists of the underaged prisoners, statistics about the prisoners, death reports etc. This record contains about 700 documents. The third group consists of documents of the Jewish Community in Zagreb "Camp Care" and contains information about assistance to the detainees. The fourth group consists of ZAVNOH documents. ZAVNOH was a central legislative and representative body and, due to its sections, partly also an executive body of the anti-Fascits Croatia. Its Social Department kept documents about the evacuation of Jews from the island of Rab, and a list of the Jews evacuated in Bari in 1944. The anti-Fascist Milivoj Jambrišak's diaries (1942-1943) about the Jews in the Resistance should also be added to this group. Apart from the written documentation there is also a large collection of propaganda photos and negatives about the Jasenovac camp. 2.3. In HISTORICAL ARCHIVES there are also materials which were stored during the Independent State of Croatia. Fragments of these are kept in specific museums as well. Documentation kept by the Jewish communities is also another valuable source for Holocaust research. The Historical Museum in Split maintains a file on the Jewish 170