Jasenovac concentration camp

The Coordination of Jewish Communities in Croatia will boycott this year's commemoration event for the victims of the Jasenovac concentration camp.

As they announced, the decision was made in order to protest against the poor cooperation with the Jasenovac Memorial Institution, and against "the relativization and revitalization of the Ustasha movement" in Croatia.

The victim needs to be remembered, but one should also be able to forgive, SPC Patriarch Irinej told Orthodox believers during a visit to Jasenovac and Pakrac.

This is according to a report in Croatian daily Jutarnji List, which continued:

Croatian website Index.hr has published excerpts from "basic laws of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH)" that banned the use of the Cyrillic alphabet.

The NDH was a Second World War-era fascist entity allied with the Nazis, whose Ustasha regime operated death camps for Serbs, Jews, and Roma, including Jasenovac.

The deputy mayor of the town of Vukovar in Croatia, Marijan Pavlicek, and City Council President Igor Gavric are shown in a video singing an Ustasha song.

The Ustasha regime was in power in the WW2-era Nazi-allied entity the Independent State of Croatia (NDH). They ran death camps, including Jasenovac, that was the site of mass murder of Serbs, Jews, and Roma.

Director of the Israel office of the Simon Wiesenthal Center Efraim Zuroff says that Jews and Serbs were victims of genocide in the NDH.

The Independent State of Croatia (NDH) was a WW2-era Nazi-allied state led by the Ustasha regime that operated death camps, including Jasenovac.

Croatia on Sunday marked the 70th anniversary of the last days of the Nazi-style concentration camp at Jasenovac, where at least 83,000 people were killed.

JASENOVAC - Today's Croatia is not a successor to the (Nazi puppet state) Independent State of Croatia (NDH), Zoran Milanovic has said at a commemoration marking 70 years since the break-out of inmates from Ustasha-run death camp Jasenovac.

ZAGREB - On the occasion of 70 years since the breakthrough of Jasenovac camp inmates, President of the Serb National Council in Croatia Milorad Pupovac called on the Croatian society to resist "the atmosphere of fascization and nazization."

BELGRADE - Serbia on Wednesday marks the national Day of Remembrance for the victims of the Holocaust, genocide and other fascist crimes in World War II, by laying wreaths and paying tribute to the victims of WWII death camp Staro Sajmiste in Belgrade.

BELGRADE - The Memorial Day for the victims of Jasenovac marks the date of the liberationv of this concentration camp run by the Ustasha, one of the worst death camps in World War Two Europe, which some historians have dubbed the Serbian Auschwitz.