ZAGREB, May 8 (Hina) - The public institution of the Jasenovac memorial centre, in cooperation with the Jasenski & Turk publishing house, has started issuing a collection of books under the title "Stone Flower", named after the famous
monument erected at the site of a World War Two concentration camp in the Croatian town of Jasenovac.
ZAGREB, May 8 (Hina) - The public institution of the Jasenovac
memorial centre, in cooperation with the Jasenski & Turk publishing
house, has started issuing a collection of books under the title
"Stone Flower", named after the famous monument erected at the site
of a World War Two concentration camp in the Croatian town of
Jasenovac. #L#
Presenting the first two books in this collection, the chairman of
the Jasenovac centre's council, Slavko Goldstein, said the purpose
of publishing the book entitled "Jasenovac 1941-1945, Death Camp
and Labour Camp" (in an unofficial translation) by Natasa Matausic
and of the "Genocide Against Romany" by Narcisa Lengel-Krizman was
to help create an objective picture of the events in the
concentration camp led by the Ustashi.
According to Goldstein, every regime so far in this area
"instrumentalised data about the number of victims and the
character of the Jasenovac camp".
He added that to date over a thousand books and some 1,400 memoirs as
well as 108 collections of documents pertaining to the issue had
been released, but despite this, no objective picture about the
Jasenovac camp complex had been established.
The book written by historian Lengel-Krizman, which covers a span
of the time from the arrival of the Romany in Croatia in 14th century
until their persecution during the Independent State of Croatia
(1941-1945), opens a topic which has not yet been tackled by books.
Much has been written about the suffering of Serbs and Jews during
WW2 but nothing has been so far been issued about the fate of the
Romany minority at the time. According to this book, some 8,000
Romany were killed in the Jasenovac camp.
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