Is Serbia using a Holocaust film as nationalist propaganda?
'Dara of Jasenovac' is the first feature-length narrative about the death camp - but is it trying to score political points?
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Fast Forward Croatian Capital’s New Holocaust Memorial Won’t Mention Local Collaboration
(JTA) — Croatia’s capital city pledged to erect a Holocaust memorial monument but local Jews said they’d have nothing to do with it as it does not mention local complicity. “There is no place for a monument to six million Jewish in Zagreb and Croatia because such a monument already exists in Berlin,” the Jewish…
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Fast Forward Jews Warn On Holocaust Revisionism In Croatia
(JTA) — In an unusual plea, the World Jewish Congress urged international bodies to oppose what it calls “brazen attempts” to whitewash Holocaust crimes in the European Union’s newest member, Croatia. The call came in a 4,000-word position paper published Monday in Tablet magazine by Menachem Rosensaft, the WJC’s general counsel. The article, titled “Croatia…
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Fast Forward Croatia Pushes Back Against $3.5B Holocaust Lawsuit Blaming Pro-Nazi Quisling Regime
Croatia rejected on Monday the allegations made in a lawsuit that demands billions in compensation to people held in concentration camps on Croatian territory during World War Two. The Ustasha regime ruled Croatia as allies of Nazi Germany from 1941 until the end of the war in 1945. Several concentration camps operated on its territory,…
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Breaking News Nazi Hunter Ephraim Zuroff Chides Israel for Silence on Croatia Holocaust Distortion
(JTA) — A leader of the Simon Wiesenthal Center accused Israel of “abdicating its duty” to Holocaust survivors following Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s failure to mention the genocide in a statement about Croatia. The allegation Tuesday by Efraim Zuroff, a well-known Holocaust researcher, hunter of Nazis and head of the Center’s Eastern Europe operations, came…
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Breaking News Croatia Jews Hold Own Holocaust Commemoration — Shun Government
Croatian Jews held a Holocaust commemoration a week before the scheduled government event that the community said it would boycott. Some 300 Jewish residents of Croatia attended the ceremony held Friday at the Nazi death camp at Jasenovac, near Zagreb, The Associated Press reported. Earlier this month, the Coordinating Committee of the Jewish Communities of…
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Breaking News Soccer Field Swastika Punishment Upheld Against Croatia
European soccer body UEFA has upheld its decision to deduct a point from Croatia’s Euro 2016 qualifying tally for a racist incident in June. “UEFA’s Appeals Body has upheld the decision to dock Croatia one point for racist behavior at their qualifying Group H game against Italy,” UEFA said on Friday. “The appeal by the…
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Breaking News Croatia Jews Get $4M in Holocaust Restitution
Croatia will give land and an office building in Zagreb collectively valued at about $4 million to the city’s Jewish community as restitution for property expropriated during World War II. According to the World Jewish Restitution Organization, the community will receive a six-story building and a surrounding land parcel owned by the government in the…
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