Next to #Zagreb‘s ðŸ‡ðŸ‡· main train station: the memorial for the victims of the #Shoah and the #Ustasha regime.
About 800 Jews from Zagreb were deported from here to #Auschwitz, in August 1942.
Many more, including Serbs, Roma and others, were murdered by the Ustasha in #Jasenovac concentration camp, about an hour away.
#zagreb #shoah #ustasha #auschwitz #jasenovac
Combating historical revisionism about WWII crimes, incl. in history teaching and in the culture of remembrance, and fighting #HateSpeech are stepping stones on the path to building cohesive societies and ensuring such atrocities never happen again. #Jasenovac
Nationalist symbols are often displayed in #Croatia and former president, Grabar-Kitarović, visited #Bleiburg describing it as “A crime is a crime and it cannot be justified by any ideology." Grabar-Kitarović, however, refused to attend official ceremonies at the #Jasenovac.
Zoran Milanović has seemingly broken from this instead making controversial statements with regard to Srebrenica:
RT @simack___
Heute vor 22 Jahren wurde Dinko Šakić, ein ehemaliger kroatischer Kommandant des Vernichtungslagers #Jasenovac, in Zagreb #Kroatien zu 20 Jahren Gefängnis verurteilt. Er plädierte vor Gericht auf "nicht schuldig"!