Ћирилица The first inmates of Jasenovac were the surviving prisoners of the complex of NDH death camps Gospić-Jadovno-Pag.  73 years ago, on 23 August, 1941, the Croatian People newspaper published the following: „..in the last couple of days, shacks at the Lonjsko Polje, which will house workers, soon to start with their work, have been completed.“ Amongst the first camp inmates of Jasenovac were prisoners from the Croatian island of Pag, which was a part of Jadovno complex of camps. Zlatko Vajler, a surviving camp inmate from Slana on the island of Pag, describes the road from Slana to Jasenovac camp: “Our camps were closed down in late August when

Ћирилица  Seventy-seven years ago today, Ustashas committed mass executions of the remaining inmates in the camps Slana on the island of Pag and Jadovno on Mt Velebit.Head of the Association Jadovno 1941 Dusan Bastasic recalls that the at least 791 people were killed in Pag and 1,500 in Velebit. “Appalled by the monstrosity of the crimes and the number of killed inmates, Italian occupation forces took over from the NDH (Independent State of Croatia) the civil and military power and ordered the closing of death camps,” Bastasic recounts for Srna. Another reason for Italians’ concern was the massive uprising of Serbs in Lika against the Ustasha tyranny. “In an effort

Ћирилица BELGRADE, August 14 /SRNA/ – The director of the Veritas Documentation Centre, Savo Strbac, told SRNA that it is inappropriate for children – athletes from Serbia – to holiday in the former Lora death camp in Split, where 1008 Serbs were tortured and 70 were killed in the most heinous ways from 1992 to 1998. Strbac called hypocritical the explanation of the organiser of the Youth Sports Games in Split, Zdravko Maric, that “the past belongs to the past,” that “one should turn to the future” and that it is bad that children will now, because of their parents’ “pointless” sensibilities, be transferred to the hotel in Zagreb. He

Ћирилица With the Blessing of his Eminence, Bishop Gerasim of Gornjokarlovacka diocese, the Jadovno 1941 Remembrance Days in 2014 will be marked from June 20th to 22nd Bearing the Holy Cross along the Jadovno martyrs’ path on June 24, 2012 The Prayer Gathering on the occasion of Remembrance Day of Jadovno 1941 begins on Friday, June 20th in the afternoon, with gathering in front of the Church of the Entry of the Most Holy Mother of God into the Temple, in Plasko. In the evening of the same day there will be held a promotion of the book „Јадовничка голгота свештенослужитеља Српске Православне Цркве 1941.године“ written by the priest Dragan

Ћирилица Find the strength and responsibility to answer this question: WHY HAVE YOU DONE THAT TO US? The Croatian political leadership marked the European Day of Remembrance of the victims of all totalitarian and authoritarian regimes, in their Croatian way. It was Jazovka first and then Jadovno. Serbs were insulted and the diplomatic representatives and the international public deluded. With great explanations of how it has civilization and historical value (of which Europe reminded them), they said that after seventy years they came to the pit Jazovka on Žumberak into which the Partisans, upon their arrival in Zagreb in 1945, threw the wounded Croatian Home Guard soldiers and Ustashas, after

Српски On 1st August 2013, the Third Round Table “Šušnjar 1941” was held in Oštra Luka, with around 45 historians, civil servants and scientists, veterans of the NOR [Narodno-oslobodilački rat, People’s Liberation War], surviving victims, writers, journalists and others. It was organised by the Municipality of Oštra Luka and the Organising Committee consisting of Prof. Vladimir Lukić, PhD, Petar Dodik, Mihajlo Orlović, Ranko Pavlović and Vukašin Davidović. More than 35 testimonies and witness accounts were given on the horrifying slaughter that took place on Saint Elijah’s Day (2nd August) in 1941.At the very beginning, the poet Boro Kapetanović recited verses from his touching poem about Šušnjar, followed by one minute’s silence

Ћирилица Another 22 April has passed, the day when we were supposed to remember the breakout of the Jasenovac inmates. The Balkan Auschwitz, the largest systematically raised devourer of the Serbian and Jewish people, each year asks us a series of questions. Those questions, complicated and never fully answered, go deep into the foundations of our collective identity, our relation towards the past, but also the relation of parents and grandparents towards their offspring. Our public awareness deeply formalized and scandalised to the point of tabloid perception, “wastes” such dates once a year, as a formality usually followed by standard journalist and politician’s phrases on the repetition of the history, our commitments, the

Ћирилица  Remembering is not enough, research is necessary, education is imperative REMEMBERING There is individual, personal remembering, primarily by those who had survived the tortures, atrocities, and concentration camps. Regretfully, very soon, not a single concentration camp survivor will remain among us. When such time comes, what remains for us will be retold and transferred memories, which can not be reliable for history. Memories, which by their very nature are subjective, over time become increasingly modified and changed. There is the so-called public memory, or remembering practiced on designated international remembrance days, when states (through statements made by authorities), once a year remember the innocent victims and terrible atrocities. Public

Српски The Serbian Diaspora must realize the magnitude of the genocide over the Serbian people in the Ustasha’s Independent State of Croatia (NDH), said tonight in Oslo the President of the Association “Jadovno 1941”, Dušan Bastašić.  “We must not forget the crimes in the Ustasha complex of death camps Gospić—Jadovno – Pag, the first liquidation centre in the NDH. We must raise awareness on it in all segments of the Serbian society, including the Diaspora. We hope to have more institutional support in this”, said Bastašić at the opening of the exhibition “My Jadovno” in the capital of Norway. After the exhibition was opened, Bastašić and Association “Jadovno 1941” Secretary Predrag Lozo held a lecture on the genocide over

Ћирилица  In the Šaranova Pit on Velebit ended the life of the founder and the last President of the old Rotary Club, Spiridon Špiro Bocarić. The guest at the meeting of Banja Luka Rotary Club on Tuesday, 8 April, 2014, was Dr Dušan Bastašić, the President of the Association “Jadovno 1941”. In a very interesting speech, Dr Bastašić presented basic data on the association, its results so far in presenting the truth on the suffering of over 40,000 souls in the Jadovno tragedy. They were Serbs (95%) and Jews (around 5%), civilians, women, children, priests, who were cruelly murdered in just few months of 1941 by Ustashas of Pavelić’s NDH,

Српски / English / Русский / Italiano / Von Anfang an seiner Existenz ist den Mitgliedern des Vereines Jadovno 1941. bewusst wie eine Forschungsarbeit wichtig ist für die Aufrechterhaltung der Erinnerungen an die Opfer des Völkermordes in der Unabhängigen Republik Kroatien. Ein unzureichender Systemansatz auf diese Thematik, hat uns angetrieben auf eine Aktion dessen Ziel es ist eine Basis zu sichern für einen hochwertigen wissenschaftlichen und professionallen Zugang zu der Thematik des Leidens unserer Mitbürger. Historische Quellen, die Basis aller Forschungen, gibt uns einen umfassenden Ansatz für die Bearbeitung der Historischen Prozesse. Der Fakt das es in Republik Srpska keine professionellen Institutionen gibt die eng spezialisiert sind für Sammlung der Originaldokumente aus der Zeit der Unabhängigen

Српски Croatia’s institutional and societal discrimination against Serbian victims and deceased members of our families is even worse than its discriminationagainst us, their earthly descendants The annual State Department Human Rights report conclusions on the existence and continuity of the process of discrimination and violence against Serbs in Croatia, is encouraging to hear from the world’s biggest power. At the same time, the conclusion of the U.S. administration that was the main sponsor of Tudjman in the 1990s and is the ultimate authority fortoday’s Croatia, without any specific directives and proposed activities to improve the condition of damaged human rights, is nothing more than a hypocritical attitude towards the victims.

Ћирилица If we want Jadovno to never happen again, then as a society we have to bring much more love, desire and effort into the education of the young generation, as this is the only way to prevent the evil to repeat itself. Venerable Father, ladies and gentlemen, good evening to you. I thank you for deciding to spend some spare time here with us and help this very important moment become even greater. For a very long time, I have been devoted to the issue of the society’s relation toward victims, which is a selective and a politicized one, and thus directed towards manipulation. Unfortunately, I am a witness

Еnglish / Српски Интернет, с его социальными сетями – великая сила коммуникации. Вряд ли ещё несколько лет назад я могла представить, что церемонию открытия XXII Зимних Олимпийских Игр буду смотреть в прямом эфире российского телевидения, обсуждая каждую деталь долгожданного праздника со своими сербскими друзьями. Вход немцев в Загреб 10.04.1941. Величие завораживающего действия, восторг, искренняя радость красоте силы духа, всё это на несколько часов стало общей гордостью за Россию и растопило холодные февральские километры между Ростовом и Белградом. Для нас, с моими сербами, не так уж важны спортивные результаты. Главное, Олимпиада может дать миру шанс быть справедливей и честней. Ведь по античной традиции, на время проведения Олимпиады надо забыть о разногласиях и

Српски / Русский The internet, with its social networks, is a great means of communication. Several years ago, I could hardly have imagined that I would watch the official opening ceremony of the XXII Olympic Winter Games in a live broadcast by Russian television, discussing online every detail of the long-awaited festivity with my Serbian friends. German’s troups in Zagreb10.04.1941 . The greatness of this fascinating event, the excitement, the sincere joy and beauty of strength of spirit, it created a source of common pride for Russia for a few hours, and melted the cold of the February kilometers between Rostov and Belgrade. For me and my Serbian friends, the athletic performances were not the most important thing. More

Српски The Ustasha massacre on 1 July, 1941 of the population of the village of Donja Suvaja, located between Srb and Donji Lapac (today’s Croatia) is the largest Ustasha crime over the population of Donji Lapac County before the uprising of the Serbian people in their struggle for survival[1] Data on the total number of victims also speak about the magnitude of this crime, but also about the crimes closely related to this event, i.e. the slaughter in the villages of Lički Osredci and Bubanj. According to historian Dr Đuro Zatezalo from Karlovac, on that day Ustashas “killed and murdered with knives 243 Serbian civilians, 118 of them were children, 75

Српски Your Excellency, Ambassador of the Republic of Serbia, Your Excellences, distinguished ladies and gentlemen: Visualization of historical processes and phenomena embodied in the complex of death camps of the Independent State of Croatia, Gospić-Jadovno-Pag, is the attempt to comprehend that which is very difficult to explain and define in an objective and simple way. Aesthetic, methodological, historical, as well as memorialization characterization of any place of suffering and the suffering itself, places before the author a series of dilemmas, difficulties and challenges. Aware of their human, moral and scientific responsibility, first and foremost towards the victims, researchers and authors are trying to paint an objective picture of explicit historical

Ћирилица The Embassy of the Republic of Serbia in London, has the honor to invite you to an opening of exhibition “My Jadovno”, to commemorate the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, on Monday, 27 January 2014, from 6.00 – 8.00 p.m. Exhibition organizers: The Embassy of the Republic of Serbia in London and Citizens Association “Jadovno 1941” from Banja Luka. Exhibition author team: Predrag Lozo, Dragoslav Ilić, Dušan Bastašić.  The first exhibition, 73 years after a great suffering of Serbs and Jews in the complex of NDH death camps Jadovno-Gospić-Pag, continues its journey. The exhibition, which has so far been presented in: Banja Luka, Novi Sad, Belgrade, Sremski Karlovci and Mitrovica, Museum of

Ћирилица Each Orthodox Serb that has survived to this day in Croatia is the personification of the evil “Vlah” at the forward end of the Ottoman front, the destroyer of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the weight of the old Yugoslav gendarme boot, the rebellious Serbs in 1941, the executor at Bleiburg in 1945, the totalitarian Serbo-Yugoslav-Communist regime, the rebellious Serbs in 1991 and God knows what else. This new, chauvinist storm neither started at the Maksimir Stadium in Zagreb, nor did it reach its apex. The announcement of this foul weather came from The Hague with the acquittal of the Croatian generals, co-authors and executors of Tuđman and Šušak’s concept of the scorched

Српски At the Church of Holy Great-Martyr George in Leicester, UK, on 16 November there was a celebration of the Temple Patron’s Day, opening of My Jadovno exhibition and a lecture on the Gospić group of camps. At the Church of Holy Great-Martyr George in Leicester in Great Britain, last Saturday, there was a holy mass, the Temple Patron Holy Great-Martyr George’s Day was celebrated and two new icons were blessed. The holy mass was led by retired Archpriest-Stavrophore Milutin Kostić, who had for many years been the rector of St. Sava Temple in London. His was assisted by archpriests-stavrophores Vido Vuković, the Rector of Bedford, Nikola Kotur, the Rector

Српски Croatia has done next to nothing to teach its people about its genocidal past, and from every corner of Croatia your citizens continue to spout racism and neo-Nazism Somehow, some way, I always knew that one day Bobby Z would speak the truth to power regarding Croatia. I wish he had said this a long time ago, but at least we now know that he knows what went on in the Balkans and he has made a perfectly correct analogy about the legacy of racism and genocide on the political culture of the region. Thank you Bobby!!! I am more pleased that Bobby Z has said this than if all the presidents

Српски The fact that execution sites where Serbs were killed in the Second World War are not shown or are hidden from view, particularly the plot 142 at the Mirogoj cemetery in Zagreb, shows an inadequate, systemic attitude of the Serb people towards the past, the present, but also the future generations, says Predrag Lozo, secretary of the association Jadovno 1941. During a lecture titled “The Secret of Plot No 142,” the site where 862 children from Mt Kozara were buried in WWII, Lozo stated that the attitude towards the execution sites of Serbs implies that the system of values dating from the period 1945-1990 still lives on. He underlined that said plot is very small, which

Ћирилица / English / Русский / Deutsche L’associazione dei cittadini ,, Jadovno 1941“ dall’inizio della sua esistenza, ha capito l’importanza della ricerca scientifica che rappresenta un contributo di cultura della memoria sulle vittime di genocidio in Stato Indipendente di Croazia. Un accesso non adeguato, sistematico su questo tema ci stimola a fare molte ricerche scietifiche che descrivono le sofferenze dei nostri compatrioti. L’origine storica, cioè categoria principale di ogni ricerca, ci da la possibilità di vedere le cose molteplici negli processi storici. In quanto che qui, cioè in Repubblica Serba non ci sono le istituzioni professionali che si occupano di questo tema, la nostra associazione in cooperazione con gli studenti della storia(dipartimento della Storia, Facoltà

Ћирилица BANJA LUKA, 8 NOVEMBER /SRNA – SERBIAN NEWS AGENCY/ – The leadership of the former Independent state of Croatia (NDH) used karst pits as the most suitable places for mass liquidation of Serbs, Jews, Roma and ideological opponents of that monster-state, stated the President of the “Jadovno 1941” Association from Banja Luka Dušan Bastašić. “Lika, Ličko Field, Velebit and the area around Velebit were chosen as the first liquidation centres of that monster-state, because they are full of karst pits, so not much ‘manual’ labour was needed for the liquidation of victims”, said Bastašić tonight in Banja Luka during the lecture on “Bottomless Pits of Lika and Velebit –