ZAGREB, February 20, 2019 – A delegation of the City of Zagreb, led by Mayor Milan Bandić, and Israeli Ambassador Ilan Mor, on Wednesday visited Jasenovac to commemorate victims of the WW2 Ustasha-run concentration camp.
During the visit, Mayor Bandić said that the Nazi-style Ustasha regime “was neither independent nor democratic or Croatian” and that it was “a dark stain in Croatia’s history”.
Bandić underscored that during the Second World War, most Croatians sided with the anti-Fascist coalition, explaining that a majority of anti-Fascist units in the area of former Yugoslavia were actually set up in Croatia.
The newly-appointed Israeli ambassador said that this was his first visit to the Jasenovac Memorial Site.
The diplomat added that Jasenovac should be a place of education of young generations so that evil was not repeated.
From August 1941 to 22 April 1945, Jasenovac operated as a death camp where men, women and children were killed because of their religion, ethnicity or ideology. The list of victims contains the names and other information on 83,145 people – 39,570 men, 23,474 women and 20,101 children under the age of 14. The most numerous victims of the camp were Serbs, Roma, Jews and Croats.
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