(Mirror.)

Quoting Meho Grbić’s Bosnia and Hercegovina 1878–1945: Islam, War and Politics, page 74:

During Fehim Spaho’s time as Reis‐ul‐ulema he complained to the NDH authorities that Jews that converted to the Islamic faith were treated unequal to the Jews that converted to Catholicism. The Reis‐ul‐ulema complained that Jews who converted to Islam in the town of Zavidovići were accused of being communists and sent to the concentration camp Gospić while Jews who converted to Catholicism moved freely around in the town.²⁷⁷

In a document dated 22 January 1942 from Mostar concerning the same issue as stated above concerning the Jews. The document stated that the Ustaša authorities were taking measures to punish the Jews harshly if they did not wear the Star of David and changed their surname no matter if they converted to Islam or Catholicism.

The document also stated that the Islamic religious authorities in Mostar have passed wrong information to the Reis‐ul‐ulema that Jews that have converted to Islam were punished but the Jews converted to the Catholic faith were not punished. All Jews were punished but it seemed like more Jews converted to the Islamic faith were punished because there were much more Jews that converted to the Islamic faith in Mostar. The document states that certain woman from Mostar, Jelisaveta Singer was punished to pay a fine of 1000 Croatian Kuna because she converted to the Catholic faith.²⁷⁸

(Emphasis added.)


Click here for events that happened today (August 4).

1876: Giovanni Giuriati, Fascist lawyer and politician, burdened the world with his existence.
1893: Fritz Gause, professional Fascist apologist, polluted the Earth with his presence.
1913: Johann Niemann, SS officer and deputy commandant of Sobibór camp during Operation Reinhard, was unleashed on humanity.
1936: Ioannis Metaxas, Greek parafascist, suspended parliament and the Constitution and established the 4th of August Régime.
1940: Zeʻev Jabotinsky, Hebrew fascist, perished.
1944: A tip from a Dutch informer lead the Gestapo to a sealed‐off area in an Amsterdam warehouse, where they found and sadly arrested the diarist Anne Frank, her family, and four others. (Coincidentally, the Finnish Parliament, by derogation, elected Marshal C. G. E. Mannerheim as President of Finland to replace Risto Ryti, who had resigned.)