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Croatia Remembers Victims of WWII Jasenovac Camp
Croatian officials and representatives of anti-fascist groups and Croatia's Serb, Roma and Jewish communities gathered on Wednesday for the annual commemoration of the victims of Jasenovac, a World War II concentration camp run by the Croatian fascist Ustasa regime.
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Jasenovac Camp Victims Commemorated Separately Again
Commemoration in Jasenovac. Photo: Lovorka Sosic.
Despite rain, about 2,000 people gathered on Friday for the annual commemoration of the victims of the camp at Jasenovac, site of an infamous World War II concentration camp run by the wartime Croatian fascist Ustase regime.
Croatian Ministry Recommends School Trips to WWII Jasenovac 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.
Croatian Anti-Fascists Disrupt Jasenovac Book Promotion
Anti-fascists in the Croatian city of Sibenik staged a protest during the promotion of a book that downplays the crimes committed at the Ustasa-run Jasenovac concentration camp during World War II.
Jasenovac Camp Book Challenges Right-Wing Revisionism
Historian Ivo Goldstein launched a new study of Croatia’s Jasenovac concentration camp, challenging attempts to downplay the crimes committed there by the fascist Ustasa during World War II.
Croatian Director Makes Film about ‘Serbian Terror’
A new documentary film claiming that Croats have been subjected to a ‘century of Serbian terror’, made by controversial Croatian director Jakov Sedlar, will be premiered next month.
Croatia Wikipedia Alters Jasenovac Camp Entry Again
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.
Croatian Concentration Camp Book Tackles Historical Revisionism
A collection of academic articles on World War II concentration camp Jasenovac is being published in a bid to counter “growing trends of historical revisionism” and politicised misuse of Croatia’s wartime past.
Nazi Hunter Denies Wanting to 'Stigmatise' Croatia
Efraim Zuroff, director at the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, has dismissed the Croatian President's claim of trying to put a 'collective stigma' on the Croatian nation for the crimes of the Fascist Ustasa regime in World War II.
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Serbia, Croatia Spar Over Concentration Camp Exhibition
Zagreb accused Belgrade of spreading “false information” with its exhibition at UN headquarters in New York about the WWII concentration camp at Jasenovac in Croatia.