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„JASENOVAC“ BY MLADEN TARBUK
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Zagreb-based composer and director Mladen Tarbuk presented his composition „Jasenovac“.
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Music Biennale Zagreb 2009 - Programme
THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE STRUGGLE AGAINST ANTI-SEMITISM AND FASCISM
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The international day of the struugle against Anti-Semitism and Fascism was marked on November 9, 2009 with an state ceremony. Minister of the Foreign Affairs in the Serbian Government Vuk Jeremić addressed Serbian and international officials present at the event and Serbian public. In Serbia, this day was marked officially for the first time in 2007, in cooperation of the Ministry of Religious Affairs, Jasenovac Committee and the Union of the Jewish Communities. |
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SERBIA BECAME LIAISON MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL TASK FORCE
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On January 3, 2009 Republic of Serbia was accepted as a Liaison Country to the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance, and Research. Serbia was accepted during annual plenary meeting of this international association in Trondheim (Norway). |
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AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF EFRAIM ZUROFF PUBLISHED IN SERBIAN
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On December 1 and 2, in Novi Sad and Belgrade the book “The Nazi Hunter” by Efraim Zuroff was promoted in the presence of the author.
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CARDINAL BOZANIĆ IN JASENOVAC – A HISTORICAL EVENT OR A SCANDAL?
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On September 10, 2009 Cardinal Josip Bozanić became the first Archbishop of Zagreb who visited Jasenovac, and raised many controversies. Three months after his visit, polemics continues. |
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A SILENCED HOLOCAUST?
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Text of Alexandar Lambros on B92 Blog provoked an interesting discussion on Jasenovac concentration and death camp. |
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SERBIAN PATRIARCH PAVLE (1914-1990-2009)
MILAN BULAJIĆ DIED
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On Sunday, November 29, Milan Bulajić, the founder of the Museum of Genocide Victims and the chairman of Fund for Genocide Research died at the Military Medical Academy in Belgrade.
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AN ISRAELI AWARD FOR A SERBIAN PRIEST
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On Wednesday, November 25, Hitahdut Olej ex-Yugoslavia awarded protopresbyter-stavrophor Slavko Maksimović who saved remnants of Jewish cemetery in Brčko (Bosnia and Herzegovina). On a special ceremony at Yad Vashem, Miriam Aviezer presented a plaquette to protopresbyter Maksimović and thanked him for his deeds.
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PILGRIMS FROM KRALJEVO VISITED JASENOVAC
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Led by protopresbyter-stavrophor Ljubinko Kostić, a group of pilgrims from Kraljevo visited martired Bosanska Krajina on September 19-20.
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MASTERPLAN FOR DONJA GRADINA AT THE EXHIBITION
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Masterplan proposals for Memorial Area Donja Gradina are displayed at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Banja Luka, November 5-20. Those are proposals that were bidding a Competition for a masterplan of the Memorial Area, announced by the Ministry of Education and Culture of Republic of Srpska.
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JENNIE LEBEL DIED
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On Tuesday, October 20, in Tel Aviv died Jennie Lebel - Holocaust survivor, Goli otok inmate, publicist and historian.
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THE FEAST OF JASENOVAC NEW MARTYRS IN AUSTRALIA
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The feast of the New Martyrs of Jasenovac was celebrated by the Serbian Orthodox Church of the Fifth Continent on September 13. |
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JASENOVAC – THE BALKAN AUSCHWITZ ON GERMAN RADIO
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On Friday, August 28, German radio station Deutschlandfunk broadcasted an emission Two Kinds of Memory: Jasenovac – The Croat Auschwitz, by Eberhard Rondholz. From the web-site Jasenovac-info one can hear the emission and read its transcript.
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AN INVITATION FOR THE FEAST OF THE JASENOVAC NEW MARTYRS IN AUSTRALIA
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The Orthodox Serbian Church in Australia and New Zealand is preparing to celebrate New Martyrs of Jasenovac on September 13, according to the local tradition. The feast will take place in the St. Sava Monastery in Hall near Canberra. |
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JASENOVAC COMMITTEE AT GRADUATE AND SUMMER SEMINARS AT YAD VASHEM
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Two associates of Jasenovac Committee participated at Yad Vashem seminars this summer: Svetlana Spajić at the Graduate seminar for educators abroad and Ivan Avramović at the Summer seminar at the same department of the International School for Holocaust Studies at Yad Vashem.
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A LECTURE ON JASENOVAC AT VANIER COLLEGE IN MONTREAL
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Within the frame of the Annual Cégep Holocaust Symposium at Vanier College in Montreal, Canada, CEO of New York based Jasenovac Research Institute Barry Lituchy gave a lecture named “Jasenovac: Forgetting and Commemorating Atrocity”.
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WASHINGTON D.C. COMMEMORATES VICTIMS OF JASENOVAC DEATH CAMP
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On May 5, 2009, Washington, D.C.’s City Council passed a resolution recognizing April 22 as the Nation’s Capital Jasenovac Day.
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DELEGATION OF CROATIAN BISHOPS VISITED JASENOVAC
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On Friday, April 3, a delegation of four Croatian Roman-Catholic bishops, led by Bishop of Đakovo and Srijem Marin Srakić, visited Memorial Area Jasenovac. |
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A MEMORIAL FOR USTAŠI VICTIMS IN JEZERO NEAR JAJCE
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At his own private initiative and joining effort with his relatives, Mirko Šajin erected a monument to the victims of Ustaši genocide who were murdered in 1942 in the Serbian village of Đumezlije near Jezero, in vicinity of Jajce (Bosnia and Herzegovina). |
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WORKSHOP ON PIUS XII AT YAD VASHEM
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An international academic workshop looking at the current state of research on Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust opened Sunday, March 8, at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. The two-day workshop is being held jointly by Yad Vashem’s International Institute for Holocaust Research and the Studium Theologicum Salesianum, Saints Peter and Paul. |
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INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST DAY MARKED ON FEAST OF ST. SAVA
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With April 22 as official day of the Genocide and Holocaust Remembrance, Serbia marked UN- designate International Holocaust Memorial Day as well. [More »] |
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JASENOVAC COMMITTEE AT WINTER SEMINAR AT YAD VASHEM
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Abbot Sofronije (Nikić) participated at Winter Seminar for Educators from Abroad at The International School for Holocaust Studies at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, January 4-22, 2009, as both candidate of Jasenovac Committee and of long-suffering Diocese of Bihać and Petrovac in Bosnia and Herzegovina, that was struck severely by Ustaši genocide and the Holocaust in the Second World War.
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Seminar Program
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AN IMPORTANT BOOK ON THE HOLOCAUST IN YUGOSLAVIA
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A collection of papers Israeli-Serbian Academic Exchange in Holocaust Research is published recently by Belgrade-based Museum of Genocide Victims. Book is product of an academic exchange that took place at Yad Vashem’s International Institute for Holocaust Research in June 2006. |
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THE ABBOT OF JASENOVAC MONASTERY DIED
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Archimandrite Amfilohije Živković, the first abbot of Jasenovac Monastery, passed in Christ on February 3, after he suffered severe injuries in explosion of gas installations on January 23, in temporary bishop’s residency in Pakrac.Eternal memory to father Amfilohije! |
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JELKA SMREKA FROM JASENOVAC MEMORIAL AREA DIED
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On Thursday, December 18, a custodian of Jasenovac Memorial Area, Jelka Smreka, died in traffic accident; she was laid to rest on December 22 at Gradiška City cemetery. Born in 1953, she devoted her active working years in taking care of camps in Stara Gradiška and Jasenovac. |
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