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CROATIAN VIEWS & PRACTISES WITH NAZI VICTIMS

WASHINGTON, Dec 4 (Hina) - On the last day of the International conference regarding assets confiscated from holocaust survivors, the Croatian delegation informed participants of 43 countries and 13 non-government organisations with Croatian views and practises regarding the issue. A twenty-page document speaks about the return and restitution of confiscated assets, cultural wealth and libraries as well as the availability of archival materials. As US state secretary Stuart Eizenstat told journalists that Croatia was amongst the few countries that made available documents from World War II to the Holocaust museum in Washington. The Croatian State Archives and Memorial Holocaust Museum in May 1995 signed an agreement on cooperation and research of the holocaust in Croatia. As a result of the agreement, documents referring to 6,573 Jews killed in Croatia during World War II, were handed over. The Croatian delegation wa
WASHINGTON, Dec 4 (Hina) - On the last day of the International conference regarding assets confiscated from holocaust survivors, the Croatian delegation informed participants of 43 countries and 13 non-government organisations with Croatian views and practises regarding the issue. A twenty-page document speaks about the return and restitution of confiscated assets, cultural wealth and libraries as well as the availability of archival materials. As US state secretary Stuart Eizenstat told journalists that Croatia was amongst the few countries that made available documents from World War II to the Holocaust museum in Washington. The Croatian State Archives and Memorial Holocaust Museum in May 1995 signed an agreement on cooperation and research of the holocaust in Croatia. As a result of the agreement, documents referring to 6,573 Jews killed in Croatia during World War II, were handed over. The Croatian delegation warned that a significant portion of documents are still located in Belgrade however, Yugoslavia has not shown any interest to give these documents up. A report made by the Croatian delegation notes that a Croatian Government decision over a year ago set up a research committee to investigate the truth pertaining to assets belonging to holocaust victims. With reference to the return of assets, the report recalled a decision that Croatia's share of moneys from the so-called tri- partite committee, which amounted to some 118 thousand dollar, be donated to holocaust victims. These funds however, were blocked by the issue of Yugoslavia's succession and Croatia has suggested that the money be released immediately and donated to holocaust victims. On the main, the report by the Croatia delegation carefully refers to the law regarding the return of assets confiscated during communist rule in the former Yugoslavia. "Numerous regulations of the law are being objected to in the Constitutional Court", notes the report. "However, because Croatia is a just state, "the law in its present form must be applied until it is supplemented, amended or its constitutionality questioned". Referring to artefacts confiscated from holocaust victims in Croatia, the report notes that in the first post-war years, two state commissions "compiled a list of art items and valuables", and that the list contained details regarding the former owner and the origin of the items. A special list was compiled for abandoned property or that where the owners are not known. Most confiscated of properties dating back to 1945, were on the main nationalised. The report also makes note that artefacts are to be considered in light of two categories, as objects of art and as cultural heritage items. These cannot be returned to their owners and will remain in museums and galleries while compensation will be arranged for former owners. Croatia has requested that artefact and other items taken to Yugoslavia between 1918 and 1991 be returned to Croatia in keeping with the question of succession of the former Yugoslav republics. The report further makes mention of the damages caused to many heritage items during the recent aggression against Croatia. "At the end of the second millennium, it is the last moment to determine the historical truth and method of restitution for holocaust victims", concludes the document presented by the Croatian delegation at Washington's holocaust conference. (hina) sp

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