Museum of Genocide Victims, Belgrade VICTIMS OF 1941–1945 WAR BORN IN THE REGION 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 The area we are covering was 11.23% of the NDH territory and according to the 1931 census it had 659,701 people, 63.39% of them Orthodox Christians, 12.01% Roman Catholic, 23.84% Muslim and 0.76% others. The estimated population in 1941 is 804,835, which is 12.78% of estimated number of people living in the NDH (there was no census in 1941). In this area, deaths of 105,624 people have been recorded, which is 23.16%

The International Commission for the Truth on Jasenovac, Mainaschaff SOCIAL-PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF THE PHENOMENON OF GENOCIDE (IN THE LIGHT OF THE DEFINITIONISM-THEORY) „Usurpation of the power over definitions with intention to acquire a monopoly over the same, on the part of the centers of political power, embodied in governmental or para-governmental structures is the most efficient instrument of the said centers of political powers, and simultaneously, the engine of both segmentary and total development of the human society. The growth of the political power is, as experience teaches us, directly proportional to the decline in adherence to the ethical imperatives of the human society. Thus the usurpation of power over

Ithaca College, New York A SURVIVING CHILD CAMP INMATE – PERSONAL MEMORY AND TRANSFERRED EXPERIENCE This paper is describing a personal of a 62 years old man who lost most of his family in the Holocaust at the hands of Croatians (many died in the Jadovno Complex including Slana and Karlobag). The parents of the only child who lost their loved one immigrated to Israel after the war but never talked about the experience and so the home was filled with a heavy atmosphere of guilt, shame and deep sadness. It was not until November 2005 that an inner calling directed the author to find us what happened.  This was a time

Institute for Contemporary History, Belgrade CAMP GOSPIĆ IN CROATIAN NATIONAL AND RACIAL POLICY IN 1941 Favourable political and military circumstance after 27 March and aggression of Germany and its allies on the Kingdom of Yugoslavia enabled the Independent State of Croatia to be created and political programmes of extreme Croatian nationalism to be fulfilled. Although formally it was within Italian sphere of interest, the Ustasha state, with its creation and ideological profile was much closer to German Nazi rather than Italian fascist model. The new state structure was established surprisingly quickly because it was founded on the basis of the civil servants of the Croatian Banovina who, after a public

University of Cagliari  ITALIAN OCCUPATION IN TUNISIA AND YUGOSLAVIA: DIFFERENCES AND SIMILITUDE IN THE RELATIONS WITH THE JEWS During my studies I have investigated on the role of Jews in the community of Tunisia and Algeria analyzing their activities to understand their position in the colonial society. Tunisia was a world inhabited by Muslim Arabs, but dominated by French, a world in which differences existed between French and Arabs (in their behaviour towards the Jews), but also existed internal differences in the religious groups (Muslims, Christians, and Jews). During my lecture, I would like to emphasize on the impact that Vichy’s racial laws had on Tunisian society, focusing also on