(english)
Neonazismo: il Vaticano e la Croazia (2)
1. The Ustasha Genocide - A Historical Review
http://www.balkan-archive.org.yu/Jasenovac/index.html
2. New study questions values taught in Croatia's textbooks
http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=12202&intcategoryid=2
3. INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON JASENOVAC OPENS IN JERUSALEM
(Dec 30, 2002; Tanjug)
4. JASENOVAC RESEARCH INSTITUTE: "LET THE TRUTH BE KNOWN"
http://www.jasenovac.org/
On Sunday, April 20, 2003 the Jasenovac Research Institute held its
second annual Holocaust commemoration ceremony.
5. Croatian border officers block Delegation of Roma - Jasenovac
Memorial Park
6. JUNE 2003: POPE TO VISIT PETRICEVAC
=== 1 ===
http://www.balkan-archive.org.yu/Jasenovac/index.html
The Ustasha Genocide - A Historical Review
An Introduction to The Ustasha, The Independent State of Croatia...
The Ustasha are members of a fascist movement, of an ultra-nationalist
and terrorist orientation, aiming at a Greater Croatia (Ustasha means
"rebel").
Research Papers
English:
The application of remote sensing and IT in research of mass graves in
the system of Jasenovac ustasha camps
By Jasmin Babic, Tomas Cupkovic and Nebojsa Bosiocic (PDF - 2330Kb)
Remote sensing enables a large amount of qualitative new data about
the Earth's surface to be obtained. It also creates precise geodetic
bases in a new, efficient and economic way. It can also be applied to
the discovery of mass graves in the system of Croatian ustasha
genocide camps. This research demands an interdisciplinary approach
and a methodology by which we can find the precise location and make a
detailed analysis of any individual grave.
Georadar test examinations on the place of mass execution - Donja
Gradina
By Spomenko J. Mihajlovic, Vasilije Belobrkovic and Vladimir Miletic
(PDF - 460Kb)
Preliminary Project Donja Gradina
By Miroslav Markovic, Jasmin Babic and Nebojsa Bosiocic (PDF - 85Kb)
Related Links:
Federal Court to Hear Holocaust Case Against Vatican
On March 23 in a San Francisco federal court, Judge Maxine Chesney
will hear arguments for and against a lawsuit filed by Holocaust
survivors and their heirs against the Vatican Bank and Franciscan
Order. Recent controversy surrounding the wartime Pope, Pius XII,
figures in the lawsuit filed by Serbs, Jews, and Ukrainians. The
subject of the lawsuit is the "Ustasha Treasury", tens of millions of
plunder and concentration camp gold stolen by the brutal pro Nazi WWII
Croatian government.
Is Genocide Defined by Numbers?
by Stella Jatras
Clearly, the intent of the Nazis' "Final Solution" was to eliminate
ALL Jews. But if they had killed a few hundred, or even a few thousand
Jews, would it have been genocide? The proof of intent was in the
systematic, brutal murder of millions. Likewise, it was the intent of
the Croats in WWII to destroy all Serbs, Jews and Gypsies, or in the
words of Andrija Artukovic, the 1941 Minister of the Interior in the
Ustashe [Nazi] Independent State of Croatia, "Kill all the Serbs and
Jews including the children so that not even the seeds of the beasts
are left".
The Real Butcher of the Balkans: Pavelic not Milosevic
Ante Pavelic was the original 'Butcher of the Balkans." He was the
leader of the Nazi puppet government of the "Independent Sate of
Croatia" who died peacefully in Madrid in 1959. The mass murderer of
80,000 Jews, 30,000 Gypsies, and over 500,000 Serbs survived the
Second World War and never faced a war crimes tribunal unlike Slobodan
Milosevic whose alleged crimes pale in comparison. Instead Pavelic was
offered sanctuary by the Vatican and became a security advisor to Juan
and Eva Person before retiring to fascist Spain.
Other Resources:
Jasenovac Research Institute
Holocaust Victim's Museum
Jasenovac, WWII Ustashi Concentration Camp
Encyclopedia of the Holocaust-Vol. 2, page 739, entry: "Jasenovac"
Croatian War Criminals linked to Franciscan Order and Marianist Cult
Witness To Jasenovac's Hell by Ilija Ivanovic
Ante Pavelic: Lord of the Danse Macabre
Jovan Babic's book Little Draculas (about masacre of Serbs in Croatian
vilages)
Facts about Croatian Nazi chiefs
http://www.balkan-archive.org.yu/Jasenovac/index.html
=== 2 ===
17/12/2002
http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=12202&intcategoryid=2
New study questions values taught in Croatia's textbooks
By Vlasta Kovac
ZAGREB, Croatia, Dec. 17 (JTA) - Croatian textbooks are teaching
violence and intolerance.
This was the conclusion drawn by Natasha Jovicich, who initiated a
study of 23 textbooks used in Croatian elementary schools.
Jovicich is the new director of the museum at Jasenovac, the
concentration camp operated by Croatia's wartime Ustashe fascist
regime. She initiated the study to draw attention to the basic values
being taught to Croatian children.
The textbooks were analyzed by a group of high school teachers, with
special emphasis on subjects like history and literature.
The results, which Jovicich called "shocking," appeared in the latest
edition of the Croatian weekly magazine Globus.
Among the findings:
* In a history book for eighth graders, British Prime Minister
Winston Churchill is ridiculed by being depicted as a bulldog sitting
on the British flag.
* On the same page, there is a photograph of a yellow Star of David,
and a caption saying, "The Jews had to wear a special mark, the Star
of David. This is a six-pointed star. It consists of two triangles,
which symbolize the sky and the earth." There is no mention of the
discrimination suffered by those forced to wear the symbol.
* The same history book shows the picture of Croatian wartime leader
Ante Pavelic. The accompanying caption describes him as "a jurist,
politician and the founder of the Ustashe movement," but makes no
mention of the war crimes committed under his rule.
"This textbook is a dangerous manipulation of history," professor
Rosana Ratkovchich, one of those conducting the study, wrote in her
conclusion.
The book was guilty of "relativizing" fascism and the antifascist
struggle to the point of rendering them morally indistinguishable, she
wrote.
A caption that appears under a photo of Normandy Beach on D-Day, she
wrote, creates the impression that the German army had moral
superiority during the war.
Jovicich was quoted in Globus as saying that there is a "direct
connection with the kind of intolerance that we find in these
textbooks and the growing violence manifested by young people."
A recent concert in the Croatian coastal town of Split, for example,
attracted some 40,000 young people to the soccer stadium. Many of them
wore the Ustashe insignia and waved Nazi flags.
The incident prompted some Croatian legislators to sponsor a bill that
would criminalize the glorification of Nazi ideology.
The bill is still being debated in Parliament.
Until recently, Jovicich worked in Croatia's Ministry of Education,
where she initiated several pilot programs to introduce Holocaust
education into Croatian schools.
In October, she proposed that Croatia join an international task force
dedicated to promoting Holocaust education.
Croatia is now being monitored by four members of the task force - the
United States, Israel, France and Argentina - to see what will come
out of plans to introduce Holocaust education in Croatian schools.
Meanwhile, the Jewish community of Zagreb, which has been promised
$20,000 from the Claims Conference to train educators to teach about
the Holocaust, reached an agreement with the Adam Institute in
Jerusalem to organize a seminar on the topic.
About 16 instructors are planning to attend the seminar next month.
Later, they will organize workshops and train others to teach the
subject.
=== 3 ===
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON JASENOVAC OPENS (30/12/2002)
JERUSALEM, Dec 30 (Tanjug) - A two-day 3rd International conference
on Jasenovac opened in Jerusalem on Sunday, the significance of which
is not only for the process of establishing facts about the Jasenovac
concentration camp, but also for combating the genocide crimes.
Beside Chairman Dr. Bernard Klein, the opening of the conference
entitled "Jasenovac - neglected camps in Croatia (1941-1945)" was
attended by Head of Kingsborrough College of University of New York
and Director of Wiesenthal Center Dr. Efraem Zourof, Yugoslav
Ambassadors Drinka Vidakovic-Pavlov, Bosnia-Herzegovina Ambassador
Danijel Romano and Croatian Ambassador Tomislav Bosnjak.
Jasenovac was the most notorious concentration camp in the Independent
State of Croatia (NDH), a Nazi puppet state during World War II, in
which hundreds of thousands of Serbs, and also Jews, Gypsies and
antifascist oriented Croats were killed.
At the first conference held in new York in October 1997, an
exhibition on Jasenovac was presented for the first time in the
United States. President of the Fund for investigation of genocide
Milan Bulajic told Tanjug that archpriest of the Serbian Orthodox
Church Jovan Culibrk, who used to work in the Jasenovac area, and
Romany intellectual and politician from Belgrade Dragoljub Ackovic
took part in the discussion on the first day of the Conference.
=== 4 ===
JASENOVAC RESEARCH INSTITUTE
"LET THE TRUTH BE KNOWN"
PO BOX 10-0674 BROOKLYN, NY 11210
www.jasenovac.org
webmaster@...
JRI Press Release
APRIL 14, 2003
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
SECOND ANNUAL COMMEMORATION OF THE HOLOCAUST IN YUGOSLAVIA TO BE HELD
AT THE HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL PARK IN BROOKLYN ON APRIL 20, 2003 AT 3 PM
On Sunday, April 20, 2003 the Jasenovac Research Institute will hold
its second annual Holocaust commemoration ceremony to honor and
remember the victims and Survivors of the Holocaust in Yugoslavia and
their families.
The ceremony will include a wreath laying, religious service and
speeches by Survivors, scholars and political leaders. The ceremony
comes one year after the approval of an inscribed monument dedicated
to the memory of those who perished in the largest Nazi camp in the
Balkans, Jasenovac, by the Holocaust Memorial Park Committee.
April 22nd marks the fifty-eighth anniversary of the heroic attempted
breakout by the imprisoned victims of the Jasenovac camps. The
memorial is timed to coincide as closely as possible with that date.
This year's ceremony will include a wreath laying, religious service
and speeches by Survivors and others. Among those invited to attend
are Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, U.S. Congressman
Anthony Weiner and other elected officials from Brooklyn.
Representatives from governments from the region of former Yugoslavia,
as well as UN officials, are expected to attend.
This is one of the least recognized communities of Survivors in the
world. It is felt that ours is a forgotten chapter of the Holocaust.
The tragedies of recent years in the Balkans have made this felt even
more. But we believe that this annual event and the efforts being made
to recognize the Holocaust in Yugoslavia are a necessary and
beneficial part of the healing and recovery process and a necessary
correction to past neglect. All who support justice and recognition
for Yugoslav Holocaust victims and Survivors are encouraged to enrich
this commemoration with their participation.
What was Jasenovac?
Following the Nazi invasion and dismemberment of Yugoslavia in April
1941, the "Independent State of Croatia" was established by Hitler as
a pro-Nazi regime. Dedicated to a clerical-fascist ideology, it
commenced on a systematic policy of racial extermination of all Jews,
Serbs, and Romas living within its borders. From August 1941 to April
1945 hundreds of thousands of these three groups along with
anti-fascists of other nationalities were killed at the complex of
camps known as Jasenovac which lay along the Sava River in central
Croatia. Jasenovac was among the largest and most brutal of
concentration camps during the Holocaust.
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JASENOVAC RESEARCH INSTITUTE
"LET THE TRUTH BE KNOWN"
PO BOX 10-0674
BROOKLYN, NY 11210
Tel. (718) 338-2576
www.jasenovac.org
Fax. (718) 338-2576
webmaster@...
SECOND ANNUAL JASENOVAC COMMEMORATION AT NEW YORK'S HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL
PARK
Brooklyn, NY -- On Sunday, April 20, 2003 a ceremony honoring the
Victims and Survivors of the Jasenovac Concentration Camp and of the
Holocaust in Yugoslavia was held at the Holocaust Memorial Park in
Brooklyn, New York.
The ceremony included a wreath laying, a religious service and
speeches by Survivors and scholars. Warm greetings were sent to the
ceremony by Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz.
April 22nd marked the fifty-eighth anniversary of the heroic breakout
attempt by Jasenovac inmates. Jasenovac was the largest of the
concentration camps during the Nazi occupation of the Balkans and was
run by the fascist Croatian satellite state that controlled Croatia
and Bosnia at that time.
The names of loved ones lost at Jasenovac were read and candles lit in
their memory. As the names were read, seven candles were lit in honor
of the estimated 700,000 who were killed there. Father Djokan
Majstorovic, Priest of St. Sava's Serbian Orthodox Church in Manhattan
gave a moving service in memory of the victims. The Deputy
Representative to the Bosnian Mission to the UN, Dr. Milos Prica, also
addressed those attending the ceremony. He explained that it was
impossible for him to recall just one name when thinking of Jasenovac,
for all Serbian names are connected to that tragedy.
The ceremony was sponsored by the Jasenovac Research Institute. Eva
Deutsch-Costabel, a Director of that institution, noted that not only
was much of her family killed by the Croatian fascist regime, but all
of her friends were taken from her as well. "They killed our entire
Jewish community in Yugoslavia, my family, my friends. And they have
never compensated us, never recognized what they did." Eva
Deutsch-Costabel is a Survivor of two camps in Croatia who then fled
to join the Partisans. One of the names read at the ceremony was that
of her father, Arnold Deutsch.
Another JRI Director, Dr. Craig Pearson of Mesa, Arizona, spoke of his
friend Major Richard Feldman, and how he had been saved by Chetniks,
as well as the debt America owes the Serbs. Stephen Wohl, a descendent
of Macedonian Jews, spoke of his family's centuries long connection
with Macedonia and the great friendship and esteem his family has for
the Serbs. He reminded all present of the involvement of Albanian
fascists in the extermination of the Jews and Serbs in Macedonia and
Kosovo during World War II, yet another forgotten chapter of the
Holocaust.
The day of the breakout, April 22nd, was the last day the camp
operated. A passage recounting those last heroic moments by an
eyewitness, Josip Erlih, was read which recalled how the starving
prisoners sacrificed their lives to overcome the Croatian guards and
run a gauntlet of machine gun and rifle fire. They did this not so
much to save themselves but so that just one of them might live to
tell the world what happened there. All present at the ceremony
rededicated themselves to that same goal.
The JRI website will shortly publish a list of over 70,000 names of
victims of the Jasenovac camps and of the Holocaust in Yugoslavia.
Anyone who would like to provide information about victims or inmates
of camps in Yugoslavia is encouraged to contact the JRI website at
www.jasenovac.org to insure that all victims' names are included and
remembered.
The Jasenovac Research Institute is a fully accredited and recognized
501c3 non-profit organization dedicated to building public awareness
and promoting education and activities designed to enlighten the world
about the crimes of genocide committed at Jasenovac. The JRI is
awaiting the unveiling of a stone monument dedicated to the victims of
Jasenovac at the Holocaust Memorial Park this year. Donations to the
JRI for the costs of the monument or for any other project can be
earmarked and are tax deductible.
Donations can be sent to: Jasenovac Research Institute, PO Box
10-0674, Brooklyn, NY 11210.
=== 5 ===
Subject: [Samudaripen_Holocaust] Delegation of Roma - Jasenovac
Memorial Park
Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 23:23:39 +0200
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Three-member delegation of representatives of surviving campmates of
Jasenovac camp and three-member delegation of Roma from Serbia and
Montenegro, which were supposed to place wreaths at the Monument of
Victims of Jasenovac Camp, were returned by the Croatian border
officers because, as they said, they had not received a list with
names of those who were supposed to place wreaths, and that therefore
they could not issue visas for them.
According to our information, the list with names has been sent
earlier, but the Croatian border officers claimed that they did not
have any information about that. Invitation letter sent by the
Jasenovac Memorial Park was not valid for them, and, on question of
delegations if they could get visas as individual applicants, one of
the border officers answered that it was not possible because he had
contacted the Croatian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MUP) in Zagreb
and that he was told that standard procedure had to be followed.
However, this was not the first time that the Croatian border officers
hold former campmates. For example, last year, though all of them had
regularly issued visas, they were held at the border crossing for more
that 2 hours, so they arrived to late for the official ceremony.
=== 6 ===
Subject: POPE TO VISIT PETRICEVAC
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 20:46:16 -0400
From: Boba
(Re: Ottawa Citizen : "Pontiff, in Croatia, praises 'lofty vocation'
of women as wives and mothers"
http://www.canada.com/news/story.asp?id=46784879-357E-4D7F-BB39-AF59750A6595
POPE TO VISIT PETRICEVAC
Pope Johan Paul II plans to visit a Franciscan monastery in Petricevac
near the city of Banja Luka (Republic of Serpska / Bosnia and
Herzegovina) to beatify 20th-century Roman Catholic theologian Ivan
Merz on June 22, 2003.
It is going to be Pope's second visit to this region in the last seven
years.
Pope John Paul II will go down in history for his beatification of a
record number of people (233) * in a single ceremony in the Vatican,
as well for his beatification of Cardinal Aloysius Stepinac of Nazi
state of Croatia, thus making Stepinac a saint in the Roman Catholic
Institution.
Cardinal Stepinac as well as some fathers at the Franciscan
monasteries in Nazi state of Croatia protected and helped numbers of
Ustashe to escape prosecutions for genocide committed against the
Serbs during World War II.
During World War II the Independent State of Croatia was to be 100%
Roman Catholic. Anybody not conforming was to be totally liquidated.
The conservative number of Serbs killed was around 700.000.
After the War, Ustashe "ratlines" were based in Rome and were assisted
by the Vatican. Thanks to the "ratlines" and the Vatican, many of
Ustase (some of whom still live in the USA, Canada, Latin America and
elsewhere) were never handed over, nor prosecuted for the most brutal
murders and the genocide of the 20th century.
Pope Johan Paul II should come to Petricevac not to beatify but to
request pardon - mea culpa - for unspeakable murders of some 2,500
Serbs by Croatian Ustashe on February 7, 1942. On that day alone
Ustashe, led by father Tomislav Filipovic, from Petricevac had most
gruesomely slaughtered some 2,500 Serbs from villages of Drakulic,
Sargovic and Motike of county of Petricavac only because they were of
Christian Orthodox religion.**
While conveniently ignoring atrocities against the Serbs by Croatian
forces in 1994-95, as well as those of Ustashe in Nazi Croatia, Pope
inevitable condones these atrocities.
Holy Father is not that Holy after all.
* http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/italy/03/11/beatify/
**
http://www.suc.org/culture/library/Drakulici/en/resurrected_draculas/1.html
Recommended reading:
http://www.snd-us.com/Liberty/st_jasenovac_revisited.htm
http://www.fantompowa.net/Flame/yugoslavia_catholic_church.htm
Boba Borojevic
30 Walgate Ave
ON., Canada
e-mail: ckcuboba@...
Neonazismo: il Vaticano e la Croazia (2)
1. The Ustasha Genocide - A Historical Review
http://www.balkan-archive.org.yu/Jasenovac/index.html
2. New study questions values taught in Croatia's textbooks
http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=12202&intcategoryid=2
3. INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON JASENOVAC OPENS IN JERUSALEM
(Dec 30, 2002; Tanjug)
4. JASENOVAC RESEARCH INSTITUTE: "LET THE TRUTH BE KNOWN"
http://www.jasenovac.org/
On Sunday, April 20, 2003 the Jasenovac Research Institute held its
second annual Holocaust commemoration ceremony.
5. Croatian border officers block Delegation of Roma - Jasenovac
Memorial Park
6. JUNE 2003: POPE TO VISIT PETRICEVAC
=== 1 ===
http://www.balkan-archive.org.yu/Jasenovac/index.html
The Ustasha Genocide - A Historical Review
An Introduction to The Ustasha, The Independent State of Croatia...
The Ustasha are members of a fascist movement, of an ultra-nationalist
and terrorist orientation, aiming at a Greater Croatia (Ustasha means
"rebel").
Research Papers
English:
The application of remote sensing and IT in research of mass graves in
the system of Jasenovac ustasha camps
By Jasmin Babic, Tomas Cupkovic and Nebojsa Bosiocic (PDF - 2330Kb)
Remote sensing enables a large amount of qualitative new data about
the Earth's surface to be obtained. It also creates precise geodetic
bases in a new, efficient and economic way. It can also be applied to
the discovery of mass graves in the system of Croatian ustasha
genocide camps. This research demands an interdisciplinary approach
and a methodology by which we can find the precise location and make a
detailed analysis of any individual grave.
Georadar test examinations on the place of mass execution - Donja
Gradina
By Spomenko J. Mihajlovic, Vasilije Belobrkovic and Vladimir Miletic
(PDF - 460Kb)
Preliminary Project Donja Gradina
By Miroslav Markovic, Jasmin Babic and Nebojsa Bosiocic (PDF - 85Kb)
Related Links:
Federal Court to Hear Holocaust Case Against Vatican
On March 23 in a San Francisco federal court, Judge Maxine Chesney
will hear arguments for and against a lawsuit filed by Holocaust
survivors and their heirs against the Vatican Bank and Franciscan
Order. Recent controversy surrounding the wartime Pope, Pius XII,
figures in the lawsuit filed by Serbs, Jews, and Ukrainians. The
subject of the lawsuit is the "Ustasha Treasury", tens of millions of
plunder and concentration camp gold stolen by the brutal pro Nazi WWII
Croatian government.
Is Genocide Defined by Numbers?
by Stella Jatras
Clearly, the intent of the Nazis' "Final Solution" was to eliminate
ALL Jews. But if they had killed a few hundred, or even a few thousand
Jews, would it have been genocide? The proof of intent was in the
systematic, brutal murder of millions. Likewise, it was the intent of
the Croats in WWII to destroy all Serbs, Jews and Gypsies, or in the
words of Andrija Artukovic, the 1941 Minister of the Interior in the
Ustashe [Nazi] Independent State of Croatia, "Kill all the Serbs and
Jews including the children so that not even the seeds of the beasts
are left".
The Real Butcher of the Balkans: Pavelic not Milosevic
Ante Pavelic was the original 'Butcher of the Balkans." He was the
leader of the Nazi puppet government of the "Independent Sate of
Croatia" who died peacefully in Madrid in 1959. The mass murderer of
80,000 Jews, 30,000 Gypsies, and over 500,000 Serbs survived the
Second World War and never faced a war crimes tribunal unlike Slobodan
Milosevic whose alleged crimes pale in comparison. Instead Pavelic was
offered sanctuary by the Vatican and became a security advisor to Juan
and Eva Person before retiring to fascist Spain.
Other Resources:
Jasenovac Research Institute
Holocaust Victim's Museum
Jasenovac, WWII Ustashi Concentration Camp
Encyclopedia of the Holocaust-Vol. 2, page 739, entry: "Jasenovac"
Croatian War Criminals linked to Franciscan Order and Marianist Cult
Witness To Jasenovac's Hell by Ilija Ivanovic
Ante Pavelic: Lord of the Danse Macabre
Jovan Babic's book Little Draculas (about masacre of Serbs in Croatian
vilages)
Facts about Croatian Nazi chiefs
http://www.balkan-archive.org.yu/Jasenovac/index.html
=== 2 ===
17/12/2002
http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=12202&intcategoryid=2
New study questions values taught in Croatia's textbooks
By Vlasta Kovac
ZAGREB, Croatia, Dec. 17 (JTA) - Croatian textbooks are teaching
violence and intolerance.
This was the conclusion drawn by Natasha Jovicich, who initiated a
study of 23 textbooks used in Croatian elementary schools.
Jovicich is the new director of the museum at Jasenovac, the
concentration camp operated by Croatia's wartime Ustashe fascist
regime. She initiated the study to draw attention to the basic values
being taught to Croatian children.
The textbooks were analyzed by a group of high school teachers, with
special emphasis on subjects like history and literature.
The results, which Jovicich called "shocking," appeared in the latest
edition of the Croatian weekly magazine Globus.
Among the findings:
* In a history book for eighth graders, British Prime Minister
Winston Churchill is ridiculed by being depicted as a bulldog sitting
on the British flag.
* On the same page, there is a photograph of a yellow Star of David,
and a caption saying, "The Jews had to wear a special mark, the Star
of David. This is a six-pointed star. It consists of two triangles,
which symbolize the sky and the earth." There is no mention of the
discrimination suffered by those forced to wear the symbol.
* The same history book shows the picture of Croatian wartime leader
Ante Pavelic. The accompanying caption describes him as "a jurist,
politician and the founder of the Ustashe movement," but makes no
mention of the war crimes committed under his rule.
"This textbook is a dangerous manipulation of history," professor
Rosana Ratkovchich, one of those conducting the study, wrote in her
conclusion.
The book was guilty of "relativizing" fascism and the antifascist
struggle to the point of rendering them morally indistinguishable, she
wrote.
A caption that appears under a photo of Normandy Beach on D-Day, she
wrote, creates the impression that the German army had moral
superiority during the war.
Jovicich was quoted in Globus as saying that there is a "direct
connection with the kind of intolerance that we find in these
textbooks and the growing violence manifested by young people."
A recent concert in the Croatian coastal town of Split, for example,
attracted some 40,000 young people to the soccer stadium. Many of them
wore the Ustashe insignia and waved Nazi flags.
The incident prompted some Croatian legislators to sponsor a bill that
would criminalize the glorification of Nazi ideology.
The bill is still being debated in Parliament.
Until recently, Jovicich worked in Croatia's Ministry of Education,
where she initiated several pilot programs to introduce Holocaust
education into Croatian schools.
In October, she proposed that Croatia join an international task force
dedicated to promoting Holocaust education.
Croatia is now being monitored by four members of the task force - the
United States, Israel, France and Argentina - to see what will come
out of plans to introduce Holocaust education in Croatian schools.
Meanwhile, the Jewish community of Zagreb, which has been promised
$20,000 from the Claims Conference to train educators to teach about
the Holocaust, reached an agreement with the Adam Institute in
Jerusalem to organize a seminar on the topic.
About 16 instructors are planning to attend the seminar next month.
Later, they will organize workshops and train others to teach the
subject.
=== 3 ===
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON JASENOVAC OPENS (30/12/2002)
JERUSALEM, Dec 30 (Tanjug) - A two-day 3rd International conference
on Jasenovac opened in Jerusalem on Sunday, the significance of which
is not only for the process of establishing facts about the Jasenovac
concentration camp, but also for combating the genocide crimes.
Beside Chairman Dr. Bernard Klein, the opening of the conference
entitled "Jasenovac - neglected camps in Croatia (1941-1945)" was
attended by Head of Kingsborrough College of University of New York
and Director of Wiesenthal Center Dr. Efraem Zourof, Yugoslav
Ambassadors Drinka Vidakovic-Pavlov, Bosnia-Herzegovina Ambassador
Danijel Romano and Croatian Ambassador Tomislav Bosnjak.
Jasenovac was the most notorious concentration camp in the Independent
State of Croatia (NDH), a Nazi puppet state during World War II, in
which hundreds of thousands of Serbs, and also Jews, Gypsies and
antifascist oriented Croats were killed.
At the first conference held in new York in October 1997, an
exhibition on Jasenovac was presented for the first time in the
United States. President of the Fund for investigation of genocide
Milan Bulajic told Tanjug that archpriest of the Serbian Orthodox
Church Jovan Culibrk, who used to work in the Jasenovac area, and
Romany intellectual and politician from Belgrade Dragoljub Ackovic
took part in the discussion on the first day of the Conference.
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JASENOVAC RESEARCH INSTITUTE
"LET THE TRUTH BE KNOWN"
PO BOX 10-0674 BROOKLYN, NY 11210
www.jasenovac.org
webmaster@...
JRI Press Release
APRIL 14, 2003
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
SECOND ANNUAL COMMEMORATION OF THE HOLOCAUST IN YUGOSLAVIA TO BE HELD
AT THE HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL PARK IN BROOKLYN ON APRIL 20, 2003 AT 3 PM
On Sunday, April 20, 2003 the Jasenovac Research Institute will hold
its second annual Holocaust commemoration ceremony to honor and
remember the victims and Survivors of the Holocaust in Yugoslavia and
their families.
The ceremony will include a wreath laying, religious service and
speeches by Survivors, scholars and political leaders. The ceremony
comes one year after the approval of an inscribed monument dedicated
to the memory of those who perished in the largest Nazi camp in the
Balkans, Jasenovac, by the Holocaust Memorial Park Committee.
April 22nd marks the fifty-eighth anniversary of the heroic attempted
breakout by the imprisoned victims of the Jasenovac camps. The
memorial is timed to coincide as closely as possible with that date.
This year's ceremony will include a wreath laying, religious service
and speeches by Survivors and others. Among those invited to attend
are Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, U.S. Congressman
Anthony Weiner and other elected officials from Brooklyn.
Representatives from governments from the region of former Yugoslavia,
as well as UN officials, are expected to attend.
This is one of the least recognized communities of Survivors in the
world. It is felt that ours is a forgotten chapter of the Holocaust.
The tragedies of recent years in the Balkans have made this felt even
more. But we believe that this annual event and the efforts being made
to recognize the Holocaust in Yugoslavia are a necessary and
beneficial part of the healing and recovery process and a necessary
correction to past neglect. All who support justice and recognition
for Yugoslav Holocaust victims and Survivors are encouraged to enrich
this commemoration with their participation.
What was Jasenovac?
Following the Nazi invasion and dismemberment of Yugoslavia in April
1941, the "Independent State of Croatia" was established by Hitler as
a pro-Nazi regime. Dedicated to a clerical-fascist ideology, it
commenced on a systematic policy of racial extermination of all Jews,
Serbs, and Romas living within its borders. From August 1941 to April
1945 hundreds of thousands of these three groups along with
anti-fascists of other nationalities were killed at the complex of
camps known as Jasenovac which lay along the Sava River in central
Croatia. Jasenovac was among the largest and most brutal of
concentration camps during the Holocaust.
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JASENOVAC RESEARCH INSTITUTE
"LET THE TRUTH BE KNOWN"
PO BOX 10-0674
BROOKLYN, NY 11210
Tel. (718) 338-2576
www.jasenovac.org
Fax. (718) 338-2576
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SECOND ANNUAL JASENOVAC COMMEMORATION AT NEW YORK'S HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL
PARK
Brooklyn, NY -- On Sunday, April 20, 2003 a ceremony honoring the
Victims and Survivors of the Jasenovac Concentration Camp and of the
Holocaust in Yugoslavia was held at the Holocaust Memorial Park in
Brooklyn, New York.
The ceremony included a wreath laying, a religious service and
speeches by Survivors and scholars. Warm greetings were sent to the
ceremony by Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz.
April 22nd marked the fifty-eighth anniversary of the heroic breakout
attempt by Jasenovac inmates. Jasenovac was the largest of the
concentration camps during the Nazi occupation of the Balkans and was
run by the fascist Croatian satellite state that controlled Croatia
and Bosnia at that time.
The names of loved ones lost at Jasenovac were read and candles lit in
their memory. As the names were read, seven candles were lit in honor
of the estimated 700,000 who were killed there. Father Djokan
Majstorovic, Priest of St. Sava's Serbian Orthodox Church in Manhattan
gave a moving service in memory of the victims. The Deputy
Representative to the Bosnian Mission to the UN, Dr. Milos Prica, also
addressed those attending the ceremony. He explained that it was
impossible for him to recall just one name when thinking of Jasenovac,
for all Serbian names are connected to that tragedy.
The ceremony was sponsored by the Jasenovac Research Institute. Eva
Deutsch-Costabel, a Director of that institution, noted that not only
was much of her family killed by the Croatian fascist regime, but all
of her friends were taken from her as well. "They killed our entire
Jewish community in Yugoslavia, my family, my friends. And they have
never compensated us, never recognized what they did." Eva
Deutsch-Costabel is a Survivor of two camps in Croatia who then fled
to join the Partisans. One of the names read at the ceremony was that
of her father, Arnold Deutsch.
Another JRI Director, Dr. Craig Pearson of Mesa, Arizona, spoke of his
friend Major Richard Feldman, and how he had been saved by Chetniks,
as well as the debt America owes the Serbs. Stephen Wohl, a descendent
of Macedonian Jews, spoke of his family's centuries long connection
with Macedonia and the great friendship and esteem his family has for
the Serbs. He reminded all present of the involvement of Albanian
fascists in the extermination of the Jews and Serbs in Macedonia and
Kosovo during World War II, yet another forgotten chapter of the
Holocaust.
The day of the breakout, April 22nd, was the last day the camp
operated. A passage recounting those last heroic moments by an
eyewitness, Josip Erlih, was read which recalled how the starving
prisoners sacrificed their lives to overcome the Croatian guards and
run a gauntlet of machine gun and rifle fire. They did this not so
much to save themselves but so that just one of them might live to
tell the world what happened there. All present at the ceremony
rededicated themselves to that same goal.
The JRI website will shortly publish a list of over 70,000 names of
victims of the Jasenovac camps and of the Holocaust in Yugoslavia.
Anyone who would like to provide information about victims or inmates
of camps in Yugoslavia is encouraged to contact the JRI website at
www.jasenovac.org to insure that all victims' names are included and
remembered.
The Jasenovac Research Institute is a fully accredited and recognized
501c3 non-profit organization dedicated to building public awareness
and promoting education and activities designed to enlighten the world
about the crimes of genocide committed at Jasenovac. The JRI is
awaiting the unveiling of a stone monument dedicated to the victims of
Jasenovac at the Holocaust Memorial Park this year. Donations to the
JRI for the costs of the monument or for any other project can be
earmarked and are tax deductible.
Donations can be sent to: Jasenovac Research Institute, PO Box
10-0674, Brooklyn, NY 11210.
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Subject: [Samudaripen_Holocaust] Delegation of Roma - Jasenovac
Memorial Park
Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 23:23:39 +0200
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Three-member delegation of representatives of surviving campmates of
Jasenovac camp and three-member delegation of Roma from Serbia and
Montenegro, which were supposed to place wreaths at the Monument of
Victims of Jasenovac Camp, were returned by the Croatian border
officers because, as they said, they had not received a list with
names of those who were supposed to place wreaths, and that therefore
they could not issue visas for them.
According to our information, the list with names has been sent
earlier, but the Croatian border officers claimed that they did not
have any information about that. Invitation letter sent by the
Jasenovac Memorial Park was not valid for them, and, on question of
delegations if they could get visas as individual applicants, one of
the border officers answered that it was not possible because he had
contacted the Croatian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MUP) in Zagreb
and that he was told that standard procedure had to be followed.
However, this was not the first time that the Croatian border officers
hold former campmates. For example, last year, though all of them had
regularly issued visas, they were held at the border crossing for more
that 2 hours, so they arrived to late for the official ceremony.
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Subject: POPE TO VISIT PETRICEVAC
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 20:46:16 -0400
From: Boba
(Re: Ottawa Citizen : "Pontiff, in Croatia, praises 'lofty vocation'
of women as wives and mothers"
http://www.canada.com/news/story.asp?id=46784879-357E-4D7F-BB39-AF59750A6595
POPE TO VISIT PETRICEVAC
Pope Johan Paul II plans to visit a Franciscan monastery in Petricevac
near the city of Banja Luka (Republic of Serpska / Bosnia and
Herzegovina) to beatify 20th-century Roman Catholic theologian Ivan
Merz on June 22, 2003.
It is going to be Pope's second visit to this region in the last seven
years.
Pope John Paul II will go down in history for his beatification of a
record number of people (233) * in a single ceremony in the Vatican,
as well for his beatification of Cardinal Aloysius Stepinac of Nazi
state of Croatia, thus making Stepinac a saint in the Roman Catholic
Institution.
Cardinal Stepinac as well as some fathers at the Franciscan
monasteries in Nazi state of Croatia protected and helped numbers of
Ustashe to escape prosecutions for genocide committed against the
Serbs during World War II.
During World War II the Independent State of Croatia was to be 100%
Roman Catholic. Anybody not conforming was to be totally liquidated.
The conservative number of Serbs killed was around 700.000.
After the War, Ustashe "ratlines" were based in Rome and were assisted
by the Vatican. Thanks to the "ratlines" and the Vatican, many of
Ustase (some of whom still live in the USA, Canada, Latin America and
elsewhere) were never handed over, nor prosecuted for the most brutal
murders and the genocide of the 20th century.
Pope Johan Paul II should come to Petricevac not to beatify but to
request pardon - mea culpa - for unspeakable murders of some 2,500
Serbs by Croatian Ustashe on February 7, 1942. On that day alone
Ustashe, led by father Tomislav Filipovic, from Petricevac had most
gruesomely slaughtered some 2,500 Serbs from villages of Drakulic,
Sargovic and Motike of county of Petricavac only because they were of
Christian Orthodox religion.**
While conveniently ignoring atrocities against the Serbs by Croatian
forces in 1994-95, as well as those of Ustashe in Nazi Croatia, Pope
inevitable condones these atrocities.
Holy Father is not that Holy after all.
* http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/italy/03/11/beatify/
**
http://www.suc.org/culture/library/Drakulici/en/resurrected_draculas/1.html
Recommended reading:
http://www.snd-us.com/Liberty/st_jasenovac_revisited.htm
http://www.fantompowa.net/Flame/yugoslavia_catholic_church.htm
Boba Borojevic
30 Walgate Ave
ON., Canada
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