World War II

Sept. 1 marks the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II, the greatest tragedy of the 20th century, during which the nations of the world became objects of aggression from the most powerful and organized military machine of the time, led by the hateful Nazi ideology.

Danijel Vojak, a historian from Zagreb-based Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences, is recalling how he once found an old photograph of an 11-year-old Roma boy called Stjepan Mavrovic, whose childhood was disrupted in June 1942.

The Romanian military prosecution office has opened a criminal case after more human remains were discovered near a mass grave found in 2010 close to the city of Iasi.

The remains were found on June 29 by experts working for Romania's Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust near Popricani, a small municipality close to Iasi.

Zagreb City Assembly voted on Tuesday to build a monument honouring the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust in World War II - but the proposal has been questioned by Croatian Jewish community representatives and left-wingers.

Anti-fascist demonstrators will stage protests on Saturday against the annual gathering in Bleiburg, which commemorates the tens of thousands of Nazi-allied Croatian troops and civilians killed by Yugoslav Partisans in 1945.

Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomeos and Parliament President Nikos Voutsis are participating on Thursday in the annual "March of the Living," the three-kilometer walk from the Auschwitz concentration camp to Birkenau, to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust, Deutsche Welle reported.

A 78-year-old baby doll with the hair of an unidentified Jewish girl, who was slaughtered in the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II in 1941, is the center of attention at the Anatolian Toy Museum in the southern province of Antalya.

Dodik said that the position of the Serb entity in BiH, the Serb Republic (RS) would be discussed during the meeting.

The archives in question will be opened on March 2, 2020.

A 30-year-old man whose body was found at a steep rocky area of the Tourkovounia hill range in central Athens on Wednesday afternoon is believed to have died from the fall, according to Thursday's forensic report.
The victim bore fatal multiple fractures consistent with a fall from a great height, while there were no indications of foul play, the report said.