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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 618

Croatia

Representatives of the Jewish community lay flowers at the monument commemorating victims of a World War II concentration camp in Jasenovac, Croatia, April 22, 2025. (AP)
May 3, 2025, 8:41 am
As Croatia’s fascist past sheds taboo, some local Jews fear for their future
Symbols from the era of Nazi collaboration have resurfaced in former Yugoslav nation, and community leaders say the government in Zagreb won’t ‘accept responsibility’
By Larry Luxner
Representatives of the Jewish community lay flowers at the monument commemorating victims of a World War II concentration camp in Jasenovac, Croatia, April 22, 2025. (AP)
April 22, 2025, 11:19 pm
Croatia commemorates victims of notorious Jasenovac WWII concentration camp
After years of boycotts, representatives of Serb, Jewish, Roma and antifascist organizations attend ceremonies marking 80 years since attempted uprising among prisoners
By Eldar Emric
This photograph, taken on September 20, 2024 shows a Star of David on a Jewish tombstone at the Mirogoj cemetery in Zagreb, Croatia. (Damir Sencar / AFP)
October 12, 2024, 6:48 pm
Croatia moves to protect 52 Jewish cemeteries after decades of neglect, destruction
Law stipulated that graves could be reassigned if fee not paid, meaning remains of over 3,000 Jews were exhumed because families decimated by Holocaust had nobody left to pay
By Lajla Veselica
Illustrative: In this photo taken June 21, 2013, tourists walk across a bridge in the national park Plitvice, central Croatia. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)
August 29, 2023, 6:31 pm
Israeli woman falls to her death in Croatia during hike
73-year-old was with her family at at Plitvice Lakes National Park
By ToI Staff
Croatia's Luka Modric, front, duels for the ball with Morocco's Hakim Ziyech during the World Cup third-place playoff soccer match between Croatia and Morocco at Khalifa International Stadium in Doha, Qatar, December 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
December 17, 2022, 8:53 pm
Croatia bests Morocco 2-1 to take 3rd place at Qatar World Cup
At age 37, match appears to be last appearance for Luka Modric in the tournament; eyes turn to defending champion France which will battle it out with Argentina in Sunday’s final
By james robson
Argentina players celebrate with Argentina's Lionel Messi, left, who scored his side's first goal with a penalty shot during the World Cup semifinal soccer match between Argentina and Croatia at the Lusail Stadium in Lusail, Qatar, December 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
December 13, 2022, 11:55 pm
Argentina punches ticket to World Cup final with 3-0 win over Croatia
Lionel Messi leads team to Sunday’s final, where it’ll face off against winner of Wednesday’s France-Morocco matchup
By Steve Douglas
Brazil's Neymar cries after the penalty shootout loss at the World Cup quarterfinal soccer match between Croatia and Brazil, at the Education City Stadium in Al Rayyan, Qatar, Friday, Dec. 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
December 9, 2022, 8:28 pm
Croatia sends favorites Brazil home with penalty shootout win at World Cup
Neymar had put his country ahead with a goal that moved him into a tie with Pelé as Brazil’s all-time leading scorer, but Croatia equalized with just 3 minutes left of extra time
By TALES AZZONI
File: Hundreds gather at the memorial center to pay their respects for tens of thousands of people killed in death camps run by Croatia's pro-Nazi puppet state in WWII, in Jasenovac, Croatia, April 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Nikola Solic)
April 22, 2022, 6:58 pm
Croatia Jews boycott WWII memorial, say government tolerates pro-Nazi sentiments
Jasenovac death camp, where some 100,000 were killed during Holocaust, was run by Ustasha regime, whose symbols are not banned in the country
By AFP
A worker wearing protective clothing disinfects andIsrair plane after its arrival from Moscow at the Ben Gurion International Airport, May 5, 2020. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
August 12, 2020, 8:38 pm
Israel reportedly in talks with EU countries for quarantine-free travel
Official decision on where Israelis may visit and where they can return from without needing to quarantine to be announced Thursday; Greek FM to visit Israel
By ToI Staff
Bayern Munich's German goalkeeper Manuel Neuer during the German Cup soccer final against Bayer 04 Leverkusen at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin on July 4, 2020. (Photo by Alexander Hassenstein / POOL / AFP)
July 13, 2020, 5:10 pm
Germany’s soccer captain Neuer filmed singing song by pro-Nazi Croatian singer
During beach vacation, popular player sings patriotic number by Marko Perkovic, a controversial nationalist; local media says he was ‘naive’ to think it wouldn’t attract attention
By AFP
Croatian President Zoran Milanovic addresses the media after talks with Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen at the Hofburg palace in Vienna, Austria, March 2, 2020. (AP Photo/Roland Zak)
May 1, 2020, 6:16 pm
Croatia’s leftist president leaves event over pro-Nazi salute
‘This is a deliberate provocation,’ Zoran Milanovic says after man wore t-shirt with far-right symbol to ceremony marking 1995 military operation against Serbs
By AP
Honor guards carry flowers during a commemoration ceremony for the victims of a World War II camp in Jasenovac, Croatia, April 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)
April 22, 2020, 4:30 pm
Jews, Serbs and Roma join WWII concentration camp commemorations in Croatia
After boycotting ceremony at Jasenovac for 4 years, Jewish representative says he likely won’t come back next year unless more is done against far-right activity in country
By AP
Croatian Auschwitz survivor Branko Lustig stands next to a poster of the film Schindler's List at Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, July 22, 2015. (Nir Elias/Pool Photo via AP)
November 14, 2019, 6:52 pm
Croatian Holocaust survivor who produced ‘Schindler’s List’ dies at 87
Branko Lustig, who was imprisoned at Nazi death camps, had said ‘it is a long way from Auschwitz to this stage’ upon winning Oscar in 1993
By AFP
Aloysius Stepinac, right, shakes hands with Ustasha leader Ante Pavelić. (Public domain)
September 30, 2019, 12:06 pm
Memorial in Jerusalem for alleged WWII fascist collaborator stirs controversy
A new plaque in the Old City honors the pilgrimage of a Catholic priest who saved lives during the Holocaust, but also joined the genocidal Croatian Ustasha regime
By Ronen Shnidman
A memorial plaque with an Ustasha pro-Nazi slogan is pictured after it was moved from the vicinity of the WWII extermination camp of Janesovac, to a Croatian memorial site near Novska on September 7, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / STRINGER)
May 18, 2019, 8:56 pm
Croats gather in Austria for controversial WWII commemoration
Thousands of far-right supporters mark massacre of pro-Nazi Croats by communists at the end of the war
By DUSAN STOJANOVIC
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