In 1996, Avi Yaffe was a member of an Israeli delegation that visited the town of Vukovar before it was transferred from Serbian to Croatian control in line with a U.N. decision. Yaffe asked if there was a Jewish cemetery in the town, and his Serbian hosts accompanied the delegation to the site. To his surprise he saw mass graves of entire families and heard an astonishing account of what had happened to the Jewish community of Vukovar. The graves were of former Jews who had converted under duress to Catholicism during World War II. The Jewish community of Vukovar was comprised of native-born and German-Jews who had fled from Nazi Germany. Many were doctors and lawyers and considered to be well-to-do. The Pavelic regime started deporting the town’s Jews to Croatian concentration camps.