Jevreji i Srbi u Jasenovcu

Out of 39,000 Jews who lived in the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) in April 1941, ca. 30,000 perished during the Holocaust. Ca. 25,000 Jews died in Croatian concentration camps, mainly in Jasenovac. A historical introduction (pp. 13-32), "Sopstvenim rukama na sopstvenom tlu" ("With Their Own Hands, on Their Own Soil"), deals with specific characteristics of the Holocaust in the NDH, and compares it with the Holocaust in other Nazi satellite states. Pp. 35-246 contain interviews with Jewish survivors of Jasenovac and other camps (e.g. Stara Gradiska), some of which are transcripts of audio-interviews from the Jeff and Toby Herr Collection in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Many of the interviewees fled from Jasenovac and joined the Yugoslav partisans. Pp. 411-454 contain material pertaining to attempts to distort the memory of Jasenovac in present-day Croatia, in particular an attempt made by Franjo Tudjman in his book. Pt. 3 (pp. 457-504), "Krivica Katoličke crkve" ("The Guilt of the Catholic Church"), contains material pertaining to the responsibility of the Vatican for having supported the genocidal regime of the NDH and for failing to condemn the Holocaust. Inter alia, includes a Serbian version of Menachem Shelach's essay "The Catholic Church in Croatia, the Vatican and the Murder of the Croatian Jews" [appeared in "Holocaust and Genocide Studies" 4, 3 (1989)] (pp. 469-488). Pt. 4 (pp. 507-525), "Epilog", contains essays on the postwar flight of Nazi criminals to the Americas, as well as the conflict concerning the Jasenovac Museum in Croatia and debate on the number of those who perished in Jasenovac.