02649nas a2200217   4500000000100000000000100001000000100002008004100003653002100044653002000065653001000085653001700095653001100112100001700123245007600140856014900216300001200365490000700377520202700384022002002411       2015                            d10aJewish community10aPost-war period10aShoah10aWorld War II10aZagreb1 aNaida Brandl00aActivities of the Jewish Religious Community in Zagreb in 1945 and 1946  uhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84961848637&doi=10.17234%2fRadoviZHP.47.32&partnerID=40&md5=542d6b102746aa157d7913e5de74526e  a675-7100 v473 aThe Jewish community in Croatia was almost destroyed in the period of the Shoah. Between 70 and 80 percent of Croatian Jews were killed and their property was looted or destroyed. The largest number of pre-war Jewish communities after World War II as well as Jewish societies was not renewed. Their property was also looted and destroyed. Similar was the case with cemeteries and other tangible and intangible cultural heritage. However, despite the very adverse conditions, the fact that the Jewish religious community functioned for the entire war period, not in the form of pre-war communities in this part of Europe, but with a completely new, imposed functions: care for deported Jews in concentration camps, and for the few who remained in the territory of the ISC protected on various grounds, and to do it with its own funds (raised from mainly international Jewish organizations), helped prompt the organization to help the survivors, which started to return to Zagreb and Croatia after the liberation. The leadership of the Community since May of 1943 had contacts with international Jewish organizations and was accustomed to working in abnormal conditions so they very quickly organized themselves, in much the same way as during the war. This article analyzes the activities of the Zagreb Jewish community in the immediate post-war period, from the summer of 1945 until 1946 based on the archives of the community from the Jewish Historical Museum in Belgrade. Its activities consist of the administrative assistance for baptized Jews to return to Judaism, the care of a nursing home, of helping survivors in the form of accommodation, food and health care, searching for the hidden children, as well as providing assistance to members and other Croatian Jews in search for their family members as well as for their movable and immovable property. The community was also taking care of registrars books, as well as cataloguing assets destroyed in the war and was involved in the revival of the religious life.  a0353295X (ISSN)