Language:
English
Year of publication:
2007
Titel der Quelle:
East European Jewish Affairs
Angaben zur Quelle:
37,1 (2007) 51-74
Keywords:
Jasenovac (Concentration camp)
;
Nazi concentration camps
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Commemoration
Abstract:
Commemoration of World War II and the Holocaust in post-communist Serbia has followed a path of trivialization and marginalization of the events of the Holocaust in Yugoslavia. Rather than situating the mass murder of Yugoslavian Jews in the broader context of the Nazi Holocaust, the prevalent discourse considers it as part of the genocide of the Serbian people which was perpetrated mainly by the Croatian Ustašas. Moreover, memorialization of the Holocaust focuses on the Jasenovac death camp run by Croatian authorities and neglects to discuss the Jews killed by the Nazis and their helpers on Serbian soil. Analyzes the activities and commemoration policies of two Serbian institutions: the Museum of Genocide Victims, founded in 1992, and the Jasenovac Committee of the Synod of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church, established in 2003. The Museum, especially under the directorship of Milan Bulajić (1992-2002), has tended to instrumentalize the memory of the Holocaust in order to demonstrate the sufferings of Serbs under Croatian rule. The Jasenovac Committee tends to depict Jasenovac as being "more horrible than Auschwitz".
DOI:
10.1080/13501670701197946
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