The director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Jerusalem office asked the Croatian government to investigate the man who served as commandant of the country’s Nazi puppet regime in Dubrovnik in 1941. Efraim Zuroff presented Croatian officials with documents regarding Ivo Rojnica’s role in the deportation of civilians from Dubrovnik and the confiscation of their property. Zuroff also presented documentation regarding Dinko Sakic, who awaits trial in Croatia on war crimes charges for his activities as commandant of the Jasenovac concentration camp, where an estimated 500,000 Jews, Serbs and Gypsies died during the war.
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