RAI World, RAI, Rim ITALIAN SOURCES – DOCUMENTS ON MASSACRE OF SERBS IN DALMATIA, LIKA AND KNINSKA KRAJINA (1941 – 1943) The role of Italian Army on the territory of the former Kingdom of Yugoslavia has been unjustly neglected even in the Italian historiography itself. The entry, deployment and actions of 2nd Army in Istria and Dalmatia – ordered and executed on 11 April, 1941 at 12:00pm – deserves more detailed study, because in that sector Italian units found themselves in a complex wartime and political situation unlike history has ever seen. The Italians carefully monitored and recorded the events and by that gave support to many complex historical truths

Jasenovac Board of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Jerusalem MEMOIRS, AUTOBIOGRAPHIES AND BIOGRAPHIES OF MEMBERS OF ALLIED MISSIONS IN OCCUPIED YUGOSLAVIA AS SOURCES OF RESEARCH OF 1941 AND JADOVNO The rich literature of diaries or autobiographical texts of members of Allied missions in the occupied Yugoslavia, as well as their biographies, has almost been unused in terms of research of sufferings in the Second World War in Yugoslavia. Allied missions were present in Yugoslavia already in late 1941 and had the opportunity, whether personally or through testimonies and documents, to witness the terrible suffering of some structures of the Yugoslav population during the war. Because of that their testimonies are invaluable.

Simon Wiesenthal Center, Jerusalem IMPORTANCE OF THE POST-HOLOCAUST JUSTICE IN THE EAST EUROPE AFTER THE FALL OF COMMUNISM The lecture will deal with the significance of prosecuting Nazi war criminals and collaborators in post-Communist Europe. It will describe the unique aspects of the collaboration with the Third Reich in the countries which were part of the Soviet Union or under Communist rule from the end of World War II until 1989, emphasizing the lethal nature of such collaboration, which unlike the situation elsewhere in Europe, included active participation in mass murder. Bringing these war criminals to justice has proven to be one of the most difficult, if not the most difficult, of the six

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

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem MEMORY AS IDEOLOGY IN CHANGING SOCIETIES  -„Never again“ as a paradigm for Holocaust Memory – „It is the manipulation of history rather than emotion through architecture of monuments that is troubling. When history is not understood it is more likely to be repeated.“ The modern researchers continuously attempt to bridge between the history and collective memories of the Jews and the non-Jewish communities, coexistent in a common landscape. This is not an easy task, mainly for the fundamental differences between history and memory: whereas history attempts to reconstruct the past on the basis of all the data at hand by means of critical analysis, memory

Union of Jewish Communities of Serbia, Belgrade MEMORY IS NOT ENOUGH MEMORY: There is individual, the personal memory primarily of all those who survived concentration and death camps. Unfortunately, already tomorrow none of the surviving camp inmates are going to be amongst us. There is also a public memory such as international remembrance days, when a state remembers victims and terrible crimes once a year (through speeches made by representatives of authorities). That public memorialisation is in fact a part of political obligations of states. States submit annual reports about those memorial days saying that they have successfully marked them and by that fulfilled their obligation. To public memorialisation also

Muzej žrtava genocida, Beograd ŽRTVE RATA 1941-1945. ROĐENE NA PODRUČJU BOSANSKE KRAJINE PREMA DO SADA IZVRŠENOJ REVIZIJI POPISA IZ 1964. GODINE S POSEBNIM OSVRTOM NA STRADANjE STARIJIH LICA I STRADANjE U LOGORU JADOVNO Pro­stor ko­ji obrađujemo čini 11,23% prostora NDH i pre­ma po­pi­su iz 1931. go­di­ne ima 659.701 sta­nov­ni­ka, od če­ga je 63,39% pra­vo­slav­ne, 12,01% ri­mo­ka­to­lič­ke, 23,84% islam­ske ve­ro­i­spo­ve­sti i osta­li 0,76%, a  pretpostavljeni broj stanovništva 1941. go­di­ne iznosi 804.835, što predstavlja 12,78% pretpostavljenog broja stanovnika NDH (1941. nije vršen popis stanovništva). Na ovom pro­sto­ru evi­den­ti­ra­no je 105.624 smrt­no stra­da­lih li­ca, što či­ni 23,16%  evi­den­ti­ra­nih žr­ta­va u NDH, i 13,12%   pret­po­sta­vlje­nog sta­nov­ni­štva 1941. go­di­ne ovog pod­ruč­ja (broj evi­den­ti­ra­nih žr­ta­va u

Međunarodna komisija za istinu o Jasenovcu, Mejnašaf SOCIJALNO-PSIHOLOŠKI ASPEKTI FENOMENA GENOCIDA U SVETLU „TEORIJE DEFINICIONIZMA“ Uzurpiranje vlasti nad definicijama sa težnjom postizanja jednog monopola nad istima, od strane centara političke moći, oličenih u državnim ili paradržavnim strukturama je najdelotvorniji instrument dotičnih centara političke moći i istovremeno, pogonska snaga progresa i regresa u segmentarnom i globalnom razvoju ljudskog društva. Rast političke moći je iskustveno direktno proporcionalan opadanju privrženosti imperativu etike ljudskog društva. Time je uzurpiranje vlasti nad definicijama sa-odlučujući kauzalni i prateći faktor i svih socijalnih devijacija istorije čovečanstva. (Teorija definicionizma) Vreme genocida je jedna vrsta „vanrednog stanja“ u socijalno-psihološkom pogledu i jedna bitna determinanta tog vremena je jedno – na