US EditionCroatia Commemorates Victims of WWII Concentration Camp Where Tens of Thousands Perished
- On Tuesday, April 22, 2025, Croatia held a ceremony at Jasenovac for World War II camp victims.
- The date marked 80 years since prisoners tried to escape the camp on April 22, 1945.
- Top officials and representatives from previously boycotting groups attended the ceremony.
- Official data lists over 83,000 killed, but Serbs claim a much higher number perished.
- The head of Jewish municipalities expressed pleasure that everyone attended after years of boycotts.
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During the Second World War, an estimated one hundred thousand collaborating Dutch people wore German uniforms, researchers Stijn Reurs and Cees Kleijn estimate. At least 24 of them worked for the SS as guards in the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp, sometimes even in the gas chambers. For Videoland, Reurs made a documentary about the Dutch involved in the mass murder of hundreds of thousands of Jews. “They were often very ordinary…
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Croatia commemorates victims of WWII concentration camp where tens of thousands perished
Croatia has commemorated the victims of a World War II concentration camp where tens of thousands of people perished in the hands of the pro-Nazi puppet regime at the time.
Today in Jasenovac, in the presence of representatives of the state leadership, representatives of victims' nations, associations of anti-fascists and surviving camp inmates, the 80th anniversary of the breakout of camp inmates from that Ustasha concentration camp from the Second World War was marked.
Croatia commemorated this Tuesday the 80th anniversary of the uprising of prisoners in the concentration camp of Jasenovac, one of the most important in Europe during World War II, administered by the fascist regime Ustasha. This year’s ceremony marked a turning point: after years of boycott, representatives of Jewish, Serbian, Roma and anti-fascist communities joined the official acts again. The tribute took place in the memorial of the camp, l…
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