Representations of the Holocaust and historical debates in Croatia since 1989

On the eve of the Second World War, Croatia had a small but thriving Jewish community. After the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in 1941, Croat nationalists proclaimed the Independent State of Croatia (NDH). At that time there were 40,000 Jews in the NDH. The authorities enacted anti-Jewish legislation - race laws copied from existing Nazi legislation. Between the summer of 1941 and early 1942 virtually the entire Jewish population was affected by mass arrests, and then deportation. The majority of the victims, 30,000 would perish.