JASENOVAC MEMORIAL SITE JASENOVAC, Dec 5 (Hina) - Documents and museum material from the Jasenovac memorial site, which was kept at Washington's Holocaust Memorial Museum for the past year, was restored to Jasenovac on Wednesday.
Croatian Culture Minister Antun Vujic expressed gratitude to all who helped to finally restore the material to Jasenovac. He stressed that the site should in the future be a place of remembrance of victims, and a place of warning to those who committed the crimes. The experts of the Holocaust Museum, where the Jasenovac collection was brought from the Bosnian Serb entity, said a part of the collection was missing. The collection had been stolen from Jasenovac by Serb paramilitary troops at the beginning of the war in Croatia. United States' Ambassador to Croatia Lawrence Rossin expressed satisfaction with the fact the collection was returned to Jasenovac. He added that every time he came to Jasenovac he would be
JASENOVAC, Dec 5 (Hina) - Documents and museum material from the
Jasenovac memorial site, which was kept at Washington's Holocaust
Memorial Museum for the past year, was restored to Jasenovac on
Wednesday.
Croatian Culture Minister Antun Vujic expressed gratitude to all
who helped to finally restore the material to Jasenovac. He
stressed that the site should in the future be a place of
remembrance of victims, and a place of warning to those who
committed the crimes.
The experts of the Holocaust Museum, where the Jasenovac collection
was brought from the Bosnian Serb entity, said a part of the
collection was missing. The collection had been stolen from
Jasenovac by Serb paramilitary troops at the beginning of the war in
Croatia.
United States' Ambassador to Croatia Lawrence Rossin expressed
satisfaction with the fact the collection was returned to
Jasenovac. He added that every time he came to Jasenovac he would be
lost for words when he remembered the brutal crimes which were a
part of history and which should not be forgotten.
Rossin especially thanked the Croatian government, its
institutions and individuals for having committed themselves to
returning the material, thus contributing to having the memory of
the crimes marked with dignity.
A letter sent by the Washington museum staff says that the material
will help to further investigate everything that occurred in the
Jasenovac concentration camp. They said they respected the
decision of the Croatian government to face the past, and added the
two museums' cooperation would continue.
The chairman of the Jasenovac memorial site council, Slavko
Goldstein, said grave crimes had been committed in Jasenovac and
great family and national tragedies had happened there, adding that
the complete truth about Jasenovac was yet to be established.
The site's acting director, Mate Rupic, said that the work on the
memorial collection would continue, particularly on the central
monument, which was the work of architect Bogdan Bogdanovic.
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