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"The night when Djole swam across the Danube": Thousands bid farewell to Balasevic

There were thousands of people on the Rainbow Bridge, and boats with torches lit up the river.
Symbolically, with lanterns soaring into the sky, and with rosemary, along with Balaevi's songs accompanied by a choir of Serbian National Theater and the last greeting from the Danube boats, Novi Sad paid tribute to its Pannonian Sailor.

Memory Loss: The Campaign to Whitewash Croatia’s WWII Children’s Camps

Beneath the landmark red-brick bridge in the town of Sisak, some 50 kilometres from the Croatian capital Zagreb, there's an unusual statue.

It depicts seven small children standing or sitting around a rock in a - now dried-up - pool of water. Nothing about it suggests its purpose.