CENDO was set up in 2000 by the Jewish community in Zagreb (ZOZ), the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against German (Claims Conference) and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
Speaking about the new web pages of this centre, Director Svob said that the Internet site contained data about 30 Jewish communities which existed in Zagreb in 1930.
Currently there are ten Jewish communities, and according to statistics collected in 1999, 935 Jews who survived the Holocaust lived in 60 towns and cities in Croatia. Most of them, 600, lived in Zagreb, she said.
According to her, 80 percent of Jews in Croatia were victims of the Holocaust during the Second World War.
Also in 1948, many young Jews left Croatia.
Svob said that the demographic trends among the Jewish population in Croatia were now improving.
Last weekend the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles moved into its own building, and a few days before that a tree of friendship was planted in its garden in memory of the Croatian Righteous among the Nations.
With an aim to strengthen the relations both with Los Angeles, where a sizeable Croatian community lives, and with the local Jewish community, the Croatian foreign ministry gave a token donation to help build this USD 19 million museum.
In attendance at the museum inauguration ceremony were Jewish American leaders, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, general consuls of several European countries, including Croatian general consul to this U.S. city, Ilija Zelalic.
On 14 October, Zelalic planted the olive tree dedicated to Croatians who risked their lives to save Jews during the Second World War