Jasenovac death camp, where some 100,000 were killed during Holocaust, was run by Ustasha regime, whose symbols are not banned in the country. Jews in Croatia on Friday snubbed an official commemoration for the victims of the country’s most notorious World War II death camp accusing authorities of tolerating pro-Nazi sentiments. Jews as well as ethnic Serbs and anti-fascists had boycotted the event for three consecutive years before rejoining it in 2020. (…) The camp, 100 kilometers (60 miles) southeast of Zagreb, was run by the Nazi-allied Ustasha regime. The Ustasha persecuted and killed hundreds of thousands of ethnic Serbs, Jews, Roma and anti-fascist Croatians. The European Union country’s conservative government has faced criticism in recent years for failing to condemn the use of Ustasha slogans and historical revisionism among right-wingers. The latest outrage was sparked this month when a government envoy who attended a ceremony to commemorate 1990s war paramilitaries, said Croatia “would not exist if there was no April 10, 1941.” He was referring to the date when the Nazi-allied Independent State of Croatia was founded. (…) Jasenovac was the largest and most brutal of Croatia’s two dozen concentration camps, and where many inmates were killed with hammers, knives and stones. The total number of people slaughtered there, the majority of whom were Serbs, remains disputed. The US Holocaust Memorial Museum estimates the number of victims at some 100,000.
via timesofisrael: Croatia Jews boycott WWII memorial, say government tolerates pro-Nazi sentiments
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