The head of the Memorial Centre, Natasa Jovicic, acquainted them with the new concept of the museum and Memorial Centre. The reconstructed centre and its new exhibition were opened in November 2006.
She said that about 100 experts and historians from Croatia and abroad had been engaged in organising the new presentation of the museum's holdings.
Working on this job, they were deeply aware that one genocide can create another and that one hatred provokes another hatred and they knew that this was a complex and sensitive job, Jovicic told the guests.
She spoke among other things about the importance of pointing out the name of every victim, their ethnic origin and age as well as the way in which they were murdered.
The seminar, organised by the Council of Europe, the Croatian Ministry of Science and Education, the Croatian Education Agency and the Jasenovac Memorial Centre, ends in Zagreb on Saturday. It was held on the occasion of 27 January, Holocaust Victims Remembrance Day. In 2003, Croatia joined the countries that commemorate that day.
Reporting about the seminar in Croatia, the International Herald Tribune said on Thursday that stories of Anne Frank, Oscar Schindler and Croats who saved Jews during World War II were retold this week at that event organised for Croatian teachers to help them present the era effectively to their pupils.
"We teach the history of the Holocaust, A to Z, in depth," said Stanlee Stahl, executive vice president of the New York-based Jewish Foundation for the Righteous, one of the organisers of the seminar.
The newspaper quoted Associated Press as saying that the international seminar was "another sign that Croatia has become ready to face its World War II past, when it was a Nazi puppet state that persecuted hundreds of thousands of Serbs, Jews, Gypsies and anti-fascist Croats".