Jasenovac concentration camp

The Science and Education Ministry told BIRN on Wednesday that it will recommend that Croatian schools organise visits to the Jasenovac Memorial Site as part of pupils' civic education studies from the start of the next school year.

"Therefore schools, if they decide [to do] that activity, can put [it] in their school curriculum," the ministry said.

Jasenovac was a death camp in Croatia for Serbs, Jews, and Roma, set up and operated by the Ustasha regime of the Nazi-allied Independent State of Croatia (NDH) during the Second World War.

The Society for Research of the Threefold Jasenovac Camp, which questions whether the fascist Ustasa-run Jasenovac detention site was really a concentration camp during World War II, is to hold a promotional event for a book entitled 'The Jasenovac Lie Revealed' at a Zagreb church on January 16.

Jasenovac was a death camp for Serbs, Jews, and Roma, set up and operated by the Ustasha regime of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) - a WW2 Nazi-allied entity.

Slovenian right-winger Roman Leljak will promote his book and film denying academic research-based data on the Jasenovac World War II concentration camp at Catholic church venues across Croatia.

Index.hr, Zagreb-based portal writes this and adds that Croatian Wikipedia cites as a relevant source Igor Vukics new book, Labour Camp Jasenovac

Croatian Wikipedia has again amended its entry on the World War II concentration camp at Jasenovac – naming it a 'collection' and 'labour camp' and again disputing the broadly accepted name-by-name list of victims.

"I think we, Serbs, should be proud of things we do to improve the quality of life of the Croatian minority. " said Vucic to the press in Zrenjanin.

He said that in 20 days he would present all granted requests and everything that was done so that "Croatians in Serbia feel good and respect this country".

Rivlin and Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic on Wednesday visited the grounds of the former death camp for Serbs, Jews, and Roma, that was set up and operated during the Second World War by the Ustasha regime of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH), a Nazi-allied entity.

In our continuing talks with our neighbors, there has been significant progress but we are still far away from concluding negotiations and reaching an agreement, government spokesman Dimitris Tzanakopoulos told journalists, Tanjug said, quoting Reuters.