The Croatians offered the Jewish residents to convert to Catholicism, and in return they would not be sent to the death camps. The procedure was that these Jews would submit a request to the town council to join the Catholic church. If approved, the council would then issue a conversion certificate signed by the town mayor. The Jews who converted to the Catholic church were forced to contribute their private property. (See conversion document #1 of Dr. Daniel Klein, dated 1942).