First International Conference on the Complex of

Ustasha Camps Jadovno – Gospić 1941

 

BanjaLuka, 24 – 25 June, 2011

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The First International Conference on the Complex of Ustasha Camps Jadovno – Gospić 1941 has been held in Banja Luka, 24 – 25 June, 2011 at the Banski Dvor Conference Hall.

 

 Conference organisers

 

Jadovno 1941. Association	ISI Institute for Contemporary History	ANURS Republika Srpska Academy of Arts and Sciences

 

 

Scientific Board of Conference

Prof. Momčilo Pavlović, Ph.D.
Institute for Contemporary History, Belgrade

 

Prof. Nikola B. Popović, Ph.D.
Academy of Sciences and Arts of the Republic of Srpska, Banja Luka

 

Milan Koljanin, Ph.D.
Institute for Contemporary History, Belgrade

 

Very Rev. Jovan Ćulibrk, M.A.
Jasenovac Committee
of the Holy Assembly of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church

 

Goran Latinović, M.A.
University of Banja Luka

 

 

Participants from Israel, Russia, Italy, USA, Germany, Austria, Croatia and Republika Srpska are going to give presentations at the Conference.

 

Conference Programme

 

Friday, 24 June, 2011. Banski Dvor Conference Hall:

09:00 – welcome address speeches, opening of the Conference

09:30 – Introductory presentation:

 

Đuro Zatezalo

JADOVNO - A COMPLEX OF CROATIAN USTASHA CAMPS – EXECUTION SITES IN 1941.

 

10:00 - Break, interviews, statements, media

10:30 - Session 1 - MEMORY IS NOT ENOUGH - Chair Jovan Ćulibrk

1. Aleksandar Nećak: MEMORY IS NOT ENOUGH
2. Ivan Čerešnješ: MEMORY AS IDEOLOGY IN CHANGING SOCIETIES -"Never again" as a paradigm for Holocaust Memory -
3. Ljiljana Radonić: WAR OF MEMORIES IN POST-YUGOSLAV AREA
4. Efraim Zuroff: IMPORTANCE OF THE POST-HOLOCAUST JUSTICE IN THE EAST EUROPE AFTER THE FALL OF COMMUNISM

12:30 - Break

13:00 – Session 2 - SOURCES, DOCUMENTS AND TESTIMONIES - Chair Momčilo Pavlović

1. Jovan Ćulibrk: MEMOIRS, AUTOBIOGRAPHIES AND BIOGRAPHIES OF MEMBERS OF ALLIED MISSIONS IN OCCUPIED YUGOSLAVIA AS SOURCES OF RESEARCH OF 1941 AND JADOVNO
2. Mila Mihajlović: ITALIAN SOURCES - DOCUMENTS ON MASSACRE OF SERBS IN DALMATIA, LIKA AND KNINSKAKRAJINA (1941 – 1943)
3. Dragan Šućur: SUFFERING OF CLERGY OF THE SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH IN THE SYSTEM OF USTASHA CAMPS JADOVNO-GOSPIĆ IN 1941

14:30 - Lunch

16:30 - Session 3 - SECOND WORLD WAR CONTEXT - Chair Nikola Popović

1. Kiril Feferman: NAZI “DIVIDE ET IMPERA”: COMPARING SOVIET AND YUGOSLAV CASES IN 1941
2. Filippo Petrucci: ITALIAN OCCUPATION IN TUNISIA AND YUGOSLAVIA: DIFFERENCES AND SIMILITUDE IN THE RELATIONS WITH THE JEWS
3. Raphael Israeli: ISLAM IN THE BALKANS UNDER THE GERMAN OCCUPATION

18:00 – Break

18:30 – Session 4 - JADOVNO IN THE POLITICS AND IDEOLOGY OF THE NDH – Chair Ivan Čerešnješ

1. Milan Koljanin: CAMP GOSPIĆ IN CROATIAN NATIONAL AND RACIAL POLICY IN 1941
2. Mladenka Ivanković: JADOVNO - “ARYANISATION OF CULTURAL ENVIRONMENT” OF THE INDEPENDENT STATE OF CROATIA - Jewish intellectuals and student youth as one of first victims of mass executions -

19:30 – End of Day 1 of the Conference

20:15 – Official Dinner 

 

Saturday, 25 June, 2011. Banski Dvor Conference Hall:

 

09:00 – Session 5 - KALEIDOSCOPE OF INSIGHTS - Chair Filippo Petrucci

1. Nikola Žutić: "BLOODY SUMMER IN LIKA OF 1941" - ROMAN CATHOLIC INSTIGATORS AND PERPETRATORS OF GENOCIDE
2. Melita Švob: JEWS DIED IN JADOVNO
3. Dani Novak: A SURVIVING CHILD CAMP INMATE - PERSONAL MEMORY AND TRANSFERRED EXPERIENCE
4. Vladimir Umeljić: SOCIAL - PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF THE PHENOMENON OF GENOCIDE (DEFINITIONISM - THEORY)
5. Jovan Mirković: VICTIMS OF 1941 - 1945 WAR BORN IN THE AREA OF BOSANSKA KRAJINA ACCORDING TO THE REVISION OF THE 1964 CENSUS WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON THE SUFFERING OF ELDERLY AND THE SUFFERING IN CAMP JADOVNO

11:00 – Closing of Conference, acknowledgement by the organisers, announcement of the evening promotion of books and the marking “Jadovno 1941 Remembrance Day” on the next day

 

Conference sponsors

The First International Conference on the Complex of Ustashas Camps Jadovno – Gospić 1941, was financially supported by the following institutions and individuals:

 

Republika Srpska Government, Ministry of Science and Technology	Republic of Serbia Government, Ministry of Religion and Diaspora	Republika Srpska Academy of Arts and Sciences	City of Banja Luka, Administrativna služba grada

 

Banski dvor: Cultural Centre, Banja Luka	Menadžer kompanija d.o.o. Banja Luka	Elnos d.o.o. Banja Luka

 

- Lanako d.o.o. Banja Luka

- Alf-Om d.o.o. Banja Luka

- MG Mind d.o.o. Mrkonjić Grad

- BL dental, Banja Luka

- Orba d.o.o. Banja Luka

- Association of Refugee and Other Organisations of Croatian Serbs, Belgrade

- Municipality Brod

- Municipality Krupa na Uni 

- City of Istočno Sarajevo

- Municipality Modriča

- Municipality Šamac

- Municipality Kalinovik

- Audi centrе, Banja Luka

- Minaqua

- Alliance of anti-fascist fighters and anti-fascists of Croatia

- Mr Arie Livne

- Mr Dani Novak, USA

- Mr Bogdan and Ms Vesna Grahovac, Sweden

- Ms Dragica Ševo, Banja Luka

- Dr Vladislav Turnić, Dubrovnik

- Ms Jerina Malešević, Zagreb

- Pensioners Party of Republika Srpska

 

 

President of the Organising Committee

Dušan Bastašić, D.M.D

Jadovno 1941. Association

 

Jadovno 1941 – Association of Descendants and Supporters of

Victims of the Complex of Ustasha Camps Gospić 1941

Address: Kralja Alfonsa XIII 49A

78000 Banja Luka, Republika Srpska

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Phone: +387 51 333 588, Fax: +387 51 333 589, Mobile: +387 65 511 130

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