CASE SAKIC - OGNJEN KRAUS TESTIFIES

( Editorial: --> 3791 ) ZAGREB, Sept 28 (Hina) - In the investigation proceedings against Dinko Sakic, a former commander of a concentration camp at Jasenovac, the president of the Jewish Community of Zagreb, Ognjen Kraus, testified as a witness on Monday at the County Court in Zagreb. According to inofficial sources, Kraus presented to the court a book on holocaust issued by the Jewish Community, as well as a list of inmates who had been receiving packages sent by the Jewish Community in Zagreb within the period from 1941 - 1945. The book on holocaust describes the suffering of Jews in concentration camps across the Independent State of Croatia (NDH 1941 - 1945). It is based on a list of Jews and their families from the Zagreb area who were required by the Law on Jews in effect from 1941 to supply their personal data. After the breakdown of the NDH in 1945, the names of those survived and those who had not were in handwriting added to the list. From the postcards Jewish camp inmates had sent to the Jewish Community a list of those receiving the packages had been made, while the names of those who had stopped receiving packages had been crossed out under the assumption that they had been killed. Kraus said that he had sent letters to the Jewish Communities of Sarajevo and Belgrade for the purpose of finding persons who could testify against Sakic. According to the same sources, Kraus had been contacted by several persons from Belgrade. The Jewish Community will submit a request to the State Attorney's Office, suggesting that those people testify in the Sakic case. (hina) jfk / jn / lml 281938 MET sep 98