People who created the new exhibition in the museum did a very good job, Arthur Burger, a senior adviser at the Holocaust Museum, told Hina by telephone.
Noting that the new exhibition would be best evaluated by Croatian citizens, Burger said that the exhibition used a lot of oral testimonies, people's recollections of what they had been through, which were translated into English.
Today's ceremony in the Jasenovac Memorial Park was addressed by top state officials, President Stjepan Mesic, Prime Minister Ivo Sanader and Parliament Speaker Vladimir Seks, who all pointed out that the truth about the atrocities committed by the Nazi-style Ustasha regime should not be concealed or forgotten but permanently condemned in the interests of Croatia, its future and the generations to come.
They were all together there today and they sent out a very strong message to the people of Croatia that the Memorial Museum in Jasenovac is very important, Burger said.
The president and the prime minister said today that people had been killed in Jasenovac because they were Serbs, Jews or Roma. They were killed or tortured because they belonged to a particular ethnic community, he added.
Burger and Diane Saltzman from the Holocaust Museum in Washington worked on the processing, cataloguing and conservation of material and documents from the Jasenovac collection, and on an on-line exhibition on Jasenovac, which is available on the Washington museum's web page.