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MOVIE ABOUT JASENOVAC?
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Serbian president Boris Tadić and prime ministar of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik baicly agreed on making movie about Ustaši camp Jasenovac. Serbia and Republic of Srpska will finance this project, and the “Schindler’s List” author Steven Spielberg was first to be offered to write a screenplay and to direct the movie. |
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AN IMPORTANT STUDY ON THE NDH
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Rob McCormick of the University of South Carolina Upstate published in the journal Genocide Studies and Prevention (1/2008, pp. 75-98) a study named The United States’ Response to Genocide in the Independent State of Croatia, 1941 – 1945.
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«POLITIKA» ON THE MUSEUM OF GENOCIDE VICTIMS
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Hundreds of Belgraders every day pass near a large building of the Museum of Yugoslavia on Nikola Pašić Square 11, but few among them know that at the third floor of the same buliding exists also a museum, founded in 1992, that is preserving memory on the victims of suffering in the Second World War, and in the wars between 1991-1999 as well. |
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MEDALS FOR RIGHTEOUS IN SERBIA
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On Tuesday December 2, H.E. Ambassador of the State of Israel to Serbia Arthur Koll delivered medals of the Righteous Among the Nations to the relatives of Ljubica Mandušić-Gazikalović, Jelica Ranković and Borivoje and Grozdana Bondžić who saved Jews during the Second World War. [More »] |
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FIRST-EVER SLOVENIAN SEMINAR AT YAD VASHEM
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First seminar for officials from Slovenia was held from November 23 to November 30 at the International School for Holocaust Studies at Yad Vashem. |
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JASENOVAC REMEMBRANCE DAYS IN BIJELJINA AND DOBOJ
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On Monday, December 1 Dejan Motl, a custodian of Memorial area Donja Gradina gave a lecture about Jasenovac at Youth Centre in Bijeljina; On Decembar 2, Jewish cultural centre «House of peace» in Doboj organized a Jasenovac memorial lecture and movie screening. Lecture was given by Dejan Motl, and two movies of Simo Brdar, The Sun and the Wire and God was Silent were shown. |
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SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER ANNUAL REPORT
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Jerusalem-based branch of Simon Wiesenthal Center just published its annual report on investigation and prosecution of Nazi-war criminals.
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REPRESENTATIVES OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY OF SERBIA AT YAD VASHEM SEMINARY
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In cooperation of the Jewish Community of Serbia and Yad Vashem's International School, art historians Barbara Panić and Vesna Adić participated at Summer Seminary for Jewish Educators. They published their report in the «Bulletine» of the Union of the Jewish Communities of Serbia. |
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INTERVIEW OF JULIJA KOŠ FOR “NOVI LIST”
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Two years after new exhibit at the Jasenovac Memorial Area was introduced, a member of the Governing Council of the Memorial Area in an interview for Rijeka-based “Novi List” is still radicaly critical about its worth. |
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VISIT OF THE MINISTER OF INTERIOR OF THE REPUBLIC OF SRPSKA TO YAD VASHEM
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According to Yad Vashem web-site, Mr. Stanislav Čađo, Minister of the Interior of the Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina, visited Yad Vashem on September 8, 2008.
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WALLENBERG SEMINAR AT AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU STATE MUSEUM
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Raoul Wallenberg Seminar for governmental staff Holocaust Memorialisation. Legacy of Auschwitz – World Cultural Heritage took place from November 3 until November 8 at Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland.
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JESUIT’S BOOK ON JASENOVAC RAISING CONTROVERSIES
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Croatian Jesuit Vladimir Horvat published recently book Bare Lie on Jasenovac Camp with Vladimir Mrkoci- and raised new controversies immediately after book’s release. |
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A BOOK ON THE CAMP IN SLAVONSKA POZEGA
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Belgrade based Museum of Genocide Victims published recently book by Miodrag Bjelić Ustaša Concentration Camp in Slavonska Požega in the Year of 1941.
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A REQUEST FOR AN INVESTIGATION IN THE CASE OF MILIVOJ AŠNER
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As Belgrade-based media concern B92 reported, War crimes persecutor in Belgrade completed a request for an investigation in the case of former police chief in Nova Gradiška Milivoj Ašner, who is accused for war crimes in the Second World War. |
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A LECTURE ON JASENOVAC FOR A ROMAN-CATHOLIC COMMISSION
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During the Conference of European Justitia and Pax Commissions in Belgrade coordinator of Jasenovac Committee protosingel Jovan (Ćulibrk) gave a lecture on Jasenovac to participants. Justitia and Pax is Germany-based Commission in constant contact with the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. Lecture on Jasenovac was given at the Second World War Memorial for Srem Front near Šid. |
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GOLDSTEINS AND CROATIAN LEFTIST LEADER WILL VISIT BLEIBURG?
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Leader of Croatian center-left party SDP Zoran Milanović announced his visit to Bleiburg, where he will be accompanied by Slavko and Ivo Goldstein. Efraim Zuroff of Simon Wiesenthal Center from Jerusalem protests.
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PUBLIC STATEMENT OF MARGEL INSTITUTE
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“Croatian society is in a dire need for a law made along the German model, that will outlaw any form of a magnification and propaganda of failed Nazi and fascist regimes and their deadly ideologies from the time of the Second World War.“
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JASENOVAC COMMITTEE DELEGATION AT A CONFERENCE IN JERUSALEM
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The Sixth International Conference on Holocaust and Education was held between July 6th and 11th at Yad Vashem - the Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority in Jerusalem. Among more than seven hundred participants from fifty-two countries all over the world, a special place had a delegation of Jasenovac Committee of the Holy Assembly of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church.
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63rd ANNIVERSARY OF JASENOVAC UPRISING
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Kozarska Dubica, Thursday, April 18
Cultural Center Poetry event „Donja Gradina 2008“
Donja Gradina, Friday, April 19 11:00
Poetry event „Donja Gradina 2008“
Jasenovac, Palm Sunday, April 21 11:00
Memorial event and panihida
Belgrade, Monday, April 22, 12:00
Memorial event at Staro Sajmište
Kozarska Dubica, Toma’s Sunday, May 4
Holy Liturgy
Donja Gradina, Toma’s Sunday, May 4
Memorial event and panihida
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FIRST YAD VASHEM SEMINAR FOR EDUCATORS FROM SERBIA
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From March 10 to 19 first seminar for educators from Serbia took place at the International School for Holocaust Studies at Yad Vashem. This seminar is part of program of Republic of Serbia to join the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research. |
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LECTURE ON PREDICAMENTS OF HOLOCAUST EDUCATION IN SERBIA
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On Monday February 25 protosingel Jovan Ćulibrk participated at ICHEIC International Forum for Holocaust Education in Europe held at Yad Vashem’s International School for Holocaust Studies. The subject of his lecture was Concept of Holocaust and Genocide in Serbia; the lecture was held in connection with the forthcoming first seminar in Yad Vashem for Serbian educators in March. |
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BELGRADE PRESENTATION OF YAD VASHEM’S WINTER SEMINAR
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On February 28 Jewish Historical Museum and Museum of Genocide Victims will organize a presentation of the Winter Seminar at Yad Vashem’s International School for Holocaust Studies. |
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“BESA” EXHIBITION AT UN – DISPUTED USE OF ALBANIAN RIGHTEOUS?
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On the Holocaust Day exhibition named “BESA” was opened at the UN building in New York: its subject are Albanians who saved the Jews during the Second World War. Julia Gorin is suspicious about the real intentions of the exhibition.
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JASENOVAC EXHIBITION IN PUTIGNANO
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Between February 15-23 exhibition They Were Only Children (Erano solo bambini) in children-victims of Jasenovac will be hosted by the Hall of Community Council in Putignano. The opening event was staged on Friday on 18:30 with lectures of Dino Parrotta and Andrea Cattone. |
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MAGNUM OPUS ON JADOVNO CAMP PUBLISHED
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A monograph Jadovno of Dr. Đuro Zatezalo is finally published by the Belgrade based Museum of Genocide Victims and will be presented in The Army of Serbia Center in Belgrade on Thurdsday, February 21, at 13 hours. Milan Koljanin and Svetozar Livada will speak and choirs “Braća Baruh” and “Krajina” will sing at the event. [More »]
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FORTHCOMING LECTURE ON JASENOVAC IN NEW YORK
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On June 22, at The Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Resource Center and Archives of the Queensborough Community College (Bayside, CUNY) will be given a talk on “Jasenovac and the Forgotten Holocaust of Yugoslavia” by Barry Lituchy.
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SERBIAN ASSISTANT MINISTER OF DEFENSE IN YAD VASHEM
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The Serbian Assistant Minister of Defense, Mr. Dušan Spasojević visited Yad Vashem on Wednesday, February13. After a wreath-laying ceremony in the Hall of Remembrance he visited the Children Memorial and new History Museum.
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A BOOK ON ROMA GENOCIDE PUBLISHED
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“Politika” recently published a book on Roma genocide in the Second World War. „History of Roma Holocaust“ is written by Rajko Đurić and Antun Miletić, have 440 pages and in its second part publishes a list of 23,000 Roma killed in Jasenovac concentration and death camp.
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WINTER SEMINAR FOR EDUCATORS AT YAD VASHEM ENDED
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From January 6 to 24 a Winter Seminar for Educators Abroad took place at the International School for Holocaust Studies at Yad Vashem, including educators from Croatia and FRY Macedonia. Jasenovac Committee was represented by Ms. Svetlana Spajić, but new dimension was participation of the Union of Jewish Communities of Serbia, represented at the Seminar by Mr. Nenad Antonijević, a custodian from Belgrade Museum of Genocide Victims.
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CROATIAN NEO-NAZI THREATS TO SERBS AND JEWS
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On Tuesday January 15 the Serbian Orthodox parish in Split received a letter, threatening to Serbs and Jews with extermination and praising Croatian clero-fascist leader Ante Pavelić and Ustaša crimes in death and concentration camps of Jasenovac and Stara Gradiška. |
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A DELEGATION OF THE SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH IN YAD VASHEM
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During its three day stay in Jerusalem and the Holy Land, the delegation of the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church visited also the Memorial institution of Heroes’ and Victims’ of the Holocaust – Yad Vashem. [More »]
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