Sanader started the second day of his visit to Israel by visiting the new Holocaust museum that was opened last year. This museum, unlike the old one, shows scenes from the life and suffering of Jews throughout Europe at the down of and during World War II.
Sanader said the Yad Vashem museum sent two strong messages to the present and future generations. The first message is that the events which happened must not be forgotten and the second refers primarily to politicians, who must do all to prevent such tragedies from happening again, Sanader said.
He went on to say that the world today too was faced with big problems such as international terrorism and different forms of aggression, including the aggression Croatia was exposed to in the early 1990s.
"Croats and Croatian citizens were victims of such a horrible kind of madness as Nazism and fascism, and nobody knows better what it means to be exposed to aggression and crime," Sanader wrote in the book of impressions, expressing deep sympathies on behalf of the government and Croatian people to the families of the victims of Nazis and their collaborators.
After touring the museum, Sanader laid a wreath and symbolically relit the eternal flame at the Remembrance Hall, after which he visited the hall of children's memories.
He then visited the Garden of the Nations, where he said a tree prayer and planted a tree in memory of the first visit by a Croatian prime minister to Israel.
Croatia will establish a Homeland War museum, which will be based on scientifically proven facts about all aspects of the war, Sanader said.
"A museum of that kind definitely must be established. The government has made the first step by establishing a documentation centre for the study of the Homeland War," he said.