Documents on the Holocaust in the Independent State of Croatia and the Italian authorities in Dalmatia

The file contains several documents concerning different topics, preserved among other 800 items :

• Testimonies about the flee of Jews from the Independent State of Croatia and their travel to the Italian occupied zone; their arrest and deportation to the Ferramonti camp or other destinations in Italy;
• Correspondence between Italian, Vatican and Ustashi authorities concerning a group of Jews arrested and deported to the Jasenovac death camp in 1942;
• Reports on the illegal crossing of the Italian-Independent State of Croatia border in the region of Fiume/Rijeka, organized by local civilians for the Jews fleeing from the Ustashi persecutions.

The materials have different origins. There are some original documents of the Italian authorities produced in 1941 and 1942, as well as reports and testimonies collected by SCICOS local commissions in 1945 and 1946.