Author: Barry M. Lituchy
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 414

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Author: Andriana Benčić Kužnar
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000867110
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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This book presents state-of-the-art discussions around the concentration camp Jasenovac. Initially one of the largest camps of the Second World War, Jasenovac became a symbol of supra-national unity during the Yugoslav period and in the 1990s re-emerged as a contested symbol of narrational victimhood. By analyzing some of the most controversial topics related to the Second World War in south-eastern Europe – the Holocaust, the genocide of Serbs and Roma, the issues of political prisoners and state-sponsored crimes, censorship during Communist Yugoslavia, the use of memory in war propaganda, and representation of tragedies in museums and art – the book allows for a greater understanding of the development of intergroup violence in the former Yugoslavia. It will be of interest to scholars and students of history, genocide studies, memory studies, and sociology as well as professionals working in the field of conflict resolution and reconciliation.

Author: Milan Bulajić
Publisher:
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Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Languages : en
Pages : 674

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Author: Olga Njemirovski
Publisher: Gefen Books
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 56

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Memoirs of a Jewish woman from Zagreb who managed to survive the Ustasha terror in Croatia by fleeing to Italian-occupied Split. From there, in 1943, she was deported by the Italians to the Dalmatian islands (first to Brac, then to Korcula), where she lived, together with other Jews, in "free internment." In September 1943, when the Italians left Yugoslavia, she fled to the partisan-held island of Lastovo, and then to the liberated area of Italy.

Author: Raphael Israeli
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351484036
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225

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In The Death Camps of Croatia, Raphael Israeli shows that throughout Yugoslavia during World War II, anti-semitism was both deeply rooted and widespread. This book traces the circumstances and the historical context in which the pro-Nazi Ustasha state, encompassing Croatia and Bosnia, erected the Jadovno and Jasenovac death camps. Israeli distills fact and historical record from accusation and grievance, noting that seventy years later, the gap in research and the collection of data, memoirs, and oral histories has become almost irreparable. This volume meets the challenge, basing its conclusions on evidence from participants from the period. The battle between the Serbs and the Croats is not likely to be settled any time soon. Both sides have accused the other of the wrongdoings that everyone knows occurred. While the German Nazis, Croat Ustasha, Serbian collaborators, Cetnicks, and Bosnian Hanjar recruits are often seen as the wrongdoers, there were individuals who helped the Jews, hid them at great risk, and enabled them to survive. These people absorbed the Jews in their own ranks, and gave them the means to fight; they were the only people who helped the Jews. This volume is not about judging one side or the other; it is about acknowledging the evil all sides inflicted upon the Jewish minority in their midst. Serbs, Muslims, and Croats continue to dominate the ex-Yugoslavian scene. It has been their arena of battle for centuries, while the flourishing Jewish minority culture in that area has all but come to a historical standstill and has almost completely vanished. Yet the struggle over the historical record continues.

Author: David Bruce Macdonald
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719064678
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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Balkan Holocausts? compares and contrasts Serbian and Croatian propaganda from 1986 to 1999, analyzing each group's contemporary interpretations of history and current events. It offers a detailed discussion of holocaust imagery and the history of victim-centered writing in nationalism theory, including the links between the comparative genocide debate, the so-called holocaust industry, and Serbian and Croatian nationalism. No studies on Yugoslavia have thus far devoted significant space to such analysis.

Author: Cadik I. Danon Braco
Publisher:
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Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Memoirs of a Jew born in 1923 in Sarajevo. In December 1941 the Croatian Ustasha arrested him and his father, and in February 1942 deported them to the Jasenovac concentration camp. Describes the bestial atrocities and wanton killings of prisoners, Jewish and Serbian, perpetrated by the Ustasha guards. In April 1942 Danon Braco and his father were transferred to the Stara Gradiška camp, and later to the agricultural labor camps of Ferićanci and Obradovci. In September 1942 Danon Braco and six other prisoners escaped from Obradovci and joined the partisans. His father was killed; his mother and two sisters survived in Italian-occupied Dalmatia. After the war he settled in Belgrade.

Author: William Dorich
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781882383481
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 65

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After Hitler brought Ante Pavelic to power in 1941, Pavelic created 34 "summary" courts throughout Croatia. He empowered every Croatian to arrest and kill Serbians without being charged with a crime. Any Croat could sit on these "courts," including former convicts who issued arrest warrants and passed out death sentences. Mobile courts roamed the countryside in which Serbs were arrested, tried, convicted and hanged-within hours of their capture. Numerous photographs of this period show thousands of victims hanging from trees and lamp posts throughout Croatia and Bosnia. Not a single person was brought to justice for these crimes against humanity. While the crimes of Jasenovac have finally, after 55 years, become the subject of discussion at an American college, it is paramount that we do not over-emphasize Jasenovac, as the vast majority of Serbian victims in the Holocaust were eliminated without being prisoners of any death camp, and were spared the grotesque deaths at camps like Jasenovac where victims were bludgeoned to death to save bullets, or worse, slowly dismembered to the pleasure of their tormentors.This book is the presentation of William Dorich at the First International Conference and Exhibition on the Jasenovac Concentration Camp sponsored by the Holocaust Resource Center at Kingsborough Community College, C.U.N.Y., New York. Its 60 pages reveal first person testimonies of some of the worse crimes of the 20th century including a partial list of 430 Roman Catholic priests who participated in the slaughters of tens of thousands of Serbs, then fled to Argentina with false passports created inside the "Vatican Ratline."

Author: Ilija Ivanović
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780912011608
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The true story of a boys experiences in the Jasenovac concentration camp in World War IIs Nazi puppet state of Croatia. Hidden history, unknown to Western audiences, the Jasenovac concentration camp, the so-called Balkan Auschwitz, was a place of torture and death for hundreds of thousands of Serbs, Jews, and Gypsies.

Author: Vladimir Dedijer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 456

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Firsthand testimony of survivors and eyewitnesses dramatizes this graphic account of the crimes committed during World War II at Jasenovac, the largest death camp in Yugoslavia. Dedijer's evidence attests to thousands of atrocities and to the complicity of the Catholic Church.