Zagreb, 8. 1. 1996. (IKA) – “For the Kingdom of God” is the title of the book about
Jasenovac, Mostar Bishops Ordinariate has sent to the office of Simon Wiesenthal that is engaged in collecting the data on suffering of Jews during the Second World War.
The life of Mostar Archbishop dr. Petar Čule, condemned by communist#!s regime, is documented in the book. As, it is not seldom to find the magnified data on suffering in Jasenovac ili foreign literature, Mostar Bishops#! Ordinariate has found advisable to send the book to Simon Wiesenthal#!s office, because, in the document of the accusation, ill which communists#! authorities had condemned Archbishop Čule to eleven and a half years of imprisonment, a very precise data about 40.000 persons who suffered at that concentration camp has been cited in it, too. Actually, the fact is that communists authorities, and a great number of Serbs, claimed for a very long time that about 40.000 persons of Jewish, Serbian, Croatian and Roman nationality had been killed in Jasenovac. But, later, ill 1984th, because of war compensation, that number was enlarged up to several hundreds of thousands killed there. Mostar Bishops#! Ordinariate, the publisher of the book, has sent it to the offices of Simon Wiesenthal, so that the international public could be warned, by documented data in it, to the false data about Jasenovac promoted by the authors of numerous books to the world, and by the representatives of Serbian Orthodox Church who state that the number of 700.000 to a million of Serbs had been killed ili Jasenovac