
Ljiljana Radonić, WAR OF REMEMBERANCE IN POST-YUGOSLAV REGION
University of Vienna WAR OF REMEMBERANCE IN POST-YUGOSLAV REGION Without any doubt we could say that individuals and groups use memories of past for present purposes, they remember only those events that they could fit into their own image of themselves or the group. So already in 1980-ties in (Western) Europe, after decades of suppression, the Holocaust became the focus of memories of the Second World War. The extermination of European Jews is considered to be a common experience from which Europe learned and created new structures in order to prevent something like that from happening in the future. At the same time in Eastern and Southeast Europe the history










