http://www.apisgroup.org/article.html?id=1381


Serbs and Jews


1. Jewish literature


While talking about the horrors of the Holocaust, Jewish literature
tends to be ethnocentric. It is understandable to a certain degree.
Still, when talking about suffering in Yugoslavia, all of the
literature talks with one voice about "Serbs and Jews"... For Jews and
Serbs the destiny was the same.

"Encyclopedia of The Holocaust"
http://www.apisgroup.org/ustashi.html#EH_Croatia

In many volumes of this book one can find many references on suffering
of Serbs and Jews in Yugoslavia. Just look for: Croatia, Serbia,
Jasenovac, Pavelic, Hussein al-, ... In the chapter on Croatia it says:
"THE USTASHA REGIME IN CROATIA, AND PARTICULARLY THIS DRIVE IN THE
SUMMER OF 1941 TO EXTERMINATE AND DISPOSSESS THE SERBS, WAS ONE OF THE
MOST HORRENDOUS EPISODES OF WORLD WAR II . THE MURDER METHODS APPLIED
BY THE USTASHA WERE EXTRAORDINARILY PRIMITIVE AND SADISTIC."

(Professor) Martin Gilbert: "The Holocaust"
http://www.apisgroup.org/m-gilbert.html

This historian, the official biographer of Winston Churchill says: "in
Yugoslavia, Hitler had an ideological and physical ally in the Croat
Ustashi movement..."

(Professor) Helen Fein: "Accounting for Genocide"
http://www.apisgroup.org/H-Fein.html

This renowned historian says:"[Already] by June 1941, signs on public
establishments [in Nazi Independent State of Croatia] read, NO SERBS,
JEWS, NOMADS, AND DOGS ALLOWED. She clearly states:"...Nonpartisan
sources agree that mass genocide was authorized by the state of
Croatia. They concur the state instigated, planned, and executed masses
against the Serbian Orthodox minority ...and that the Catholic clergy
approved, led, or failed to denounce these massacres."

(Professor) Raul Hilberg: "The Destruction of the European Jews"
http://www.apisgroup.org/hilberg.html

This is probably the best known book on the Jewish holocaust. It
consists of two large volumes.

Briefly, this is what Dr. Hilberg says: Since April 1941, Serbia was
under German occupation. But proud Serbs could never stand oppression.
Soon they started uprising. Unlike anywhere else in occupied Europe,
angry Nazi Germans invented 1:100 formula. For every German soldier
killed 100 civilian hostages would be executed. Jewish male population
was first among the hostages. Croatian Ustashi then finished (by use of
gas vans) Jewish women and children of Serbia. This is how German Nazi
commander of occupied Serbia could brag that "Jewish question in Serbia
was solved".

In Fascist-Catholic Independent State of Croatia, Croat fascists
eagerly and bestially exterminate Serbs (in the first place), Jews and
Gypsies. Not only did Nazi Croats surpassed Nazi Germans and Fascist
Italians - they shocked them with the bestial methods they implemented.
It was Fascist Italians that tried to stop Ustashi bloody bacchanalia.

(Professor) Susan Zuccotti:"The Italians and the Holocaust -
Persecution, Rescue, Survival" (New York, 1987)
http://www.apisgroup.org/sorry.html

Dr. Nora Levin:"The Holocaust"
http://www.apisgroup.org/Levin2.html

The author reminds us:"The Ustashi were fanatics bent on the
destruction of both Serbs and Jews... [They] murdered and tortured Jews
and Serbs in indescribably bestial fashion. One of the most notorious
camps in Hitler's Europe, Jasenovac
[http://www.apisgroup.org/jasenovac.html%5d, was in Croatia. Here the
Ustashi used primitive implements in putting their victims to death -
knives, axes, hammers and other iron tools... One source estimates that
770,000 Serbs, 40,000 Gypsies and 20,000 Jews were done to death in the
Jasenovac camp [alone]."

Michael R. Marrus: "The Holocaust in History"
http://www.apisgroup.org/Marrus.html

While talking about the Nazi satellites, the author says:"The overall
level of violence was highest in Croatia, where Pavelic's Ustasha
movement devised the most thoroughly totalitarian state of any
satellite and pursued a merciless, bloody assault on the country's two
million Serbs..."

(Professor) Clive Ponting: "Armageddon"
http://www.srpska-mreza.com/library/books/ponting.html

This historian and politician says: "The greatest ethnic slaughter took
place as Yugoslavia was carved up after the German invasion in April
1941. The creation of a separate Croatia ... controlled by the fascist,
Catholic, extremist Ustasha movement was the catalyst for the
tragedy... Now, historic Croatia was expanded to include
Bosnia-Herzegovina and other teritories, and the Ustasha were left ...
to govern a population of nearly 7 million people, of whom about half
were Croats, just over 2 million were Serbs, about 750,000 were
Muslims, and small numbers were Protestants and Jews.... The Minister
of Education, Mile Budak, made clear the Ustasha aims: "Our new Croatia
will get rid of all Serbs in our midst in order to become one hundred
percent Catholic within ten years." He spoke of killing a third of the
Serbs, converting a third, and expelling the remainder. The leader of
the Ustasha, Ante Pavelic, said,"A good Ustasha is one who can use his
knife to cut a child from the womb of its mother." (end quote).

Dr. Ronnie S. Landau: "The Nazi Holocaust"
http://www.apisgroup.org/R-Landau.html

In Yugoslav Croatia, too, there is evidence that officials of the
Orthodox Church [that is - the Serbs] pleaded with the authorities
[that is to the Nazi Croats - Ustashi] to curtail the vicious treatment
meted out to both Orthodox Serbs and Jews.

Major Richard L. Felman
http://www.srpska-mreza.com/Felman/snf-speech.html#Jew

One of more than 500 American Airmen rescued by the Serbs during WWII
says: "Many Serbs risked their lives during World War II to save
countless Jews from Nazi death camps. This is something we can never
forget and for which I and The Jewish People will always be grateful."

Gottlieb Hlinko:"Kaddish in the Serbian Forest" -"The Massacre of
European Jewry: An Antology" (Israel: Kibbutz Merchavia, 1963)
http://www.apisgroup.org/sorry.html


2. Jewish reaction to the current events


Some Jews still remember...

They shared our fate
http://www.apisgroup.org/Lapid.html

"As Jews, we do indeed have a historical obligation to the Serbs" says
Mr. Joseph Lapid, a columnist and editorial writer for"Ma'ariv" a
leading Hebrew daily.

'Eden' of Sarajevo disappeared during WWII
http://www.apisgroup.org/Lipson1.html

Says Dr. Alfred Lipson, a Senior Researcher at Holocaust Resource
Center and Archives, Queensborough Community College of the City
University of New York, Bayside, N.Y.

Serbs, Jews and Bosnia
http://www.srpska-mreza.com/ranz/July95.html

Professor John Ranz, Chairperson Survivors of the Buchenwald
Concentration Camp reminds us of the basic history of the region.

A plan bad to the bone
http://www.apisgroup.org/Reich.html

Dr. Reich, the Director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in
Washington protests Croatian plan to mix the bones of the Holocaust's
victims in Croatia with those of its perpetrators.

Fascism is alive and well in Croatia
http://www.apisgroup.org/Adelson.html

Professor Howard L. Adelson says "Today Ustashi murderers are being
rehabilitated and are being extolled as national heroes by Tudjman
despite the fact that they were among the most brutal villains [of
WWII]."

The Serbian soldiers - utterly truthful and honorable
http://www.apisgroup.org/H_Brin.html

...says Herb Brin, the oldest working American journalist and adds:
"the decision to bomb the Serb position in Bosnia breaks my heart".

U.S. Jews and the Balkan Situation
http://www.apisgroup.org/Dorfman.html

Mr. Alvin Dorfman and Mrs. Heather Cottin explain how major Jewish
organizations got to spread government anti-Serb propaganda.

Shame, shame, shame!
http://www.apisgroup.org/betrayal.html

Charley Reese: "No sin blots American politics today more than the
betrayal of the Serbs. No one ought to be more ashamed of U.S.
treatment of the Serbs than American Jews."

Jewish motives
http://www.apisgroup.org/Ramati1.html

Dr. Yohanan Ramati, the Director of The Jerusalem Institute for Western
Defence explains mentality of diaspora Jews. How did they alow to be
duped.

An open letter to the American Jewish Commitee
http://www.apisgroup.org/Cadik.html

Mr. Danon Cadik, the chief Rabbi of Yugoslavia, et. al., pleads for
justice.

Set your records straight!
http://www.apisgroup.org/Almuli.html

Mr. Jasa Almuli, past President of the Jewish Community of Belgrade and
past Vice-President of Jewish Communities in Yugoslavia, pleads for
truth.

The Serbs had for ever won a place in the hearts of the Jews
http://www.apisgroup.org/Mosic.html

"We the surviving Jews of Serbia have for them respect and
understanding. We know that the basic motive of their recent rebellion
in secessionist Croatia and Bosnia and Hercegovina were their distrust
and deep apprehension after they have been slaughtered in the Nazi era
by the Croat Ustashas and Muslim SS..." says Dr. Aleksandar Mosic,
Former Deputy President, Federation of Jewish Communities in Yugoslavia.

Serbs are our brothers in soul
http://www.apisgroup.org/Enriko-Josif.html

"A media Auschwitz, was perpetrated on the Serbian people! The Serbs
were dehumanized and portrayed as monsters exactly as the Jews were
portrayed through centuries. Do not participate in persecution of the
Serbs. They are our brothers. They are people who share the same
destiny with us, the Jewish people." says Professor and composer Enriko
Josif.

60 Minutes...more yellow journalism on Bosnia!
http://www.apisgroup.org/Marquette.html

An open letter by Mrs. Sandy Marquette a Jew from Chicago.

The European Hoodlum Democracy Will Not Break the Serbs
http://www.apisgroup.org/Mandic.html

Dr. Klara Mandic, a senior Belgrade Jewish community leader explains
the Serbian motives.

America in the Eye of a Hurricane
http://www.apisgroup.org/Kissinger.html

Dr. Henry Kissinger reminds us that Bosnia had never been an
independent state and warns us that long American tradition of support
to self-determination has been betrayed.


23. avgust 2003. godine