The conversation was held in the offices of the Municipal Board of SUBNOR, in Pag, on October 9, 1979. Present were: Nikola Bistričić, President of Pag SUBNOR, Srećko Jeličić, Secretary of Pag SUBNOR, Slavko Maržić, President of Pag UBNOR and Professor Ante Zemljar. Before the conversation started comrade Josip Blaž presented a document granting him benefits for his service from June 6, 1941 to May 15, 1945. He also presented documents showing that he had been an active in trade unions from 1932 and a member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia from 1937, and presented newspapers from that period writing about workers’ strikes. From these documents we could see

By comparing Ustashas’ confessions, statements from witnesses and other evidence concerning transportation of people from and to Velebit, it seems very clear that Ustashas were asking themselves: where to place these people and where to kill them, on Pag or on Velebit? How else we could explain why Ustashas moved the killing sites? Remember, they brought to the island people from Velebit, from Gospić or Jadovno, where the killings were a constant, and then they took some groups (how many?) from Pag and sent them to Velebit, where all of them were killed, whether next to the sea, on Oštrije, on the road to Jadovno and in Jadovno itself, or

Rijeka Archives and Croatia Archives in Zagreb I wanted to title this section YELLOW LEAVES OF DOCUMENTS, but something led me to name it: golden documents. Both of them would be suitable as I see it. It is difficult to keep a cool head when we read in them about all the horror. But it is necessary to keep a cool head, more then anything in order to rummage through the piles of (seemingly) unnecessary things and dig out the solid truth. All of the documents that we came across were mostly written several years after the crime. All of the witnesses were registered either by the Commission (or commissions)

Nameless line Flocks of seagulls disturbed Circle over rocky capes All day Impatiently – Because they see us in columns – Hoping to descend to where we occupied their nests They do not suspect that the dead do not leave Assigned execution sites When they get closer In the line Namelessly Edge of the cape Sharp stab of a rock Into the bright sea Rushing Wave and thought Suppressed Strongly One with a knife Is placed on the cape Important And rules Nobody can get close to the cape! It becomes sharper They sharpen it – Who dares to get close will get impaled. The flag of death screams over

It is very strange, among other things, when for example Nada Feureissen says: “From Metajna we went to Slana on trabaccolo cargo ships. After that we boarded a sail ship and after half an hour reached a bay…” (Slana, Suha bay). For people who know this distance, it is clear that this is probably poor memory, because if you board a ship heading to Slana, it is unnecessary to change vessels since it is not a long distance. It is more interesting that she said they went into trabaccolo ships, so more than one. But if they changed vessels (from trabaccolos to a sail ship, although the trabaccolo is also

Supporting the survey by “Novi list” from Rijeka in 1975, I would certainly like to ask questions that I have been waiting to be answered by someone who wants to help the truth with honest words. Many unclear questions wait for these answers. Who gave the order and who executed Yugoslav officer Benić “while he was escaping” and where is he buried? What was the behaviour of the Ustasha political camp in Pag regarding the forming of the concentration camp in Slana? Who decided on the aid being sent to Ustashas in Slana, whether by providing manpower, helping with the organisation, materials or transportation? Who gave orders to the Salt

There is a long island under Mount Velebit, the longest one in the Adriatic Sea, white and naked over the hills, green across the vineyards in a narrow strip close to the sea. It fears only gales, but not the winter ones. It is used to them, submissive to the regular annual evil. Even if they pour over it tonnes of sea salt raised from the froth of the channel under Velebit, the gales of January and deadly February cannot harm it much: the wine is in the cellar, the sheep has not given birth to a lamb yet, and the grapevine bud still sleeps its winter sleep in a

There is one question to which Canon J. Felicinović answered, although vaguely. If you read “Personal Memories” on page 4 you can read about the arrest of Janko Rausavljević and Lazo Rakić (clerks from Pag) where you can find out that Felicinović had to renounce his superior and young associate, the Camp Commander of the Ustasha Headquarters in Pag. I quote: “In the town of Pag lived Martin Rudelić from Brašani near Gospić who worked as a post office clerk. On July 1, 1941 he illegally and without a cause arrested customs officer Janko Rausavljević and Lazo Rakić who were Orthodox Christians. He found a ship on which he planned