Arrest of the Jews of Split after Italian capitulation

Split, a major port in Dalmatia, found itself after the partition of the country in the zone occupied by the Italian army. Its Jewish community, one of the oldest on the eastern Adriatic, was subjected to discriminatory measures but spared from handovers, as the Italian military authorities refused to surrender the Jews of their zone to the Ustasha regime and the German occupier. The city thus became a refuge for hundreds of fugitives from Croatia and Bosnia, before many were interned on an island along the coast. The Italian capitulation reversed the situation: German troops entered Split, and the community, along with the refugees it sheltered, were hunted down, arrested, and deported.