Holocaust Research in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia. An Inventory

Vulesica Marija ()
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Vulesica Marija: Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung Ernst-Reuter Platz 7 (TEL 9-1),10587 Berlin Germany

Comparative Southeast European Studies, 2017, vol. 65, issue 2, 260-283

Abstract: The Holocaust and other mass killings committed during the Second World War in the Yugoslav territories play a more significant role in current public debates than they do in education and research. 85% of Yugoslavia’s Jews were annihilated in the period between 1941 and 1945. In socialist Yugoslavia, it was Holocaust survivors in particular who collected materials that documented the execution of exterminist policies. How has the examination of the Holocaust changed since the dissolution of Yugoslavia; and how have the newly established states of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as Serbia coped with this part of their history? The author asks whether an exclusive exploration of Jewish suffering is possible—or even desirable—in today’s post-Yugoslav societies. She gives an overview of the evolution of a specific ‘Yugoslav’ approach to the history of the Holocaust, and depicts recent Croatian, Bosnian, and Serbian efforts in this field. Furthermore, she looks at what kind of attention the Holocaust in Yugoslavia has received in international Holocaust Studies.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1515/soeu-2017-0018

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