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Fans of Croatian nationalist singer Marko Perkovic Thompson gather at the Zagreb hippodrome during a concert by the singer, who is known for his sympathies for the country's World War II Nazi-allied regime, to an expected crowd of some 450,000 people on July 5, 2025. (Damir Sencar/AFP)
July 7, 2025, 6:18 pm
Croatian right-wing singer joins hundreds of thousands of fans in pro-Nazi salute
Authorities say they could prosecute some members of audience for their displays at Marko Perkovic concert
By Grace Gilson
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
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
Maurice de Vlaminck's 'Landscape by the Water,' an art piece looted by the Nazi-allied regime in Croatia during the Holocaust and restored in September 2023 to its rightful owner, undated. (Archives of the Zagreb National Museum of Modern Art)
September 23, 2023, 7:56 pm
In apparent first, Croatia restores looted art to grandson of Holocaust victim
Three museums return pieces to Andy Reichsman, who continued decades-long struggle by late aunt to reclaim works stolen by Nazi-allied regime
By ToI Staff and Agencies
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 man looks at the World War II Jasenovac memorial camp model on April 26, 2015, during a ceremony to remember the tens of thousands who were killed by Croatia's pro-Nazi regime. (AFP/Stringer)
March 20, 2019, 9:45 am
Croatia’s Serbian, Jewish groups to snub WWII death camp memorial
Umbrella organizations say they are boycotting event for fourth year because authorities tolerate nostalgia for country’s pro-Nazi past
By AFP and ToI Staff
Illustrative: Members of the Jewish community walk in front of a memorial in the shape of a flower in Jasenovac on April 15. 2016. (AFP PHOTO / STRINGER)
July 7, 2018, 4:04 pm
Australian glasses co. under fire for ad campaign filmed at Holocaust death camp
Saying it was unaware of site’s sensitivity, Valley Eyewear apologizes and takes down pictures and video shot at Jasenovac concentration camp in Croatia
By ToI Staff
In this Jan. 26, 2017 photo, the plaque bearing WWII pro-Nazi regime salute "Za Dom Spremni" (For Homeland Ready) commemorating deaths of Croatian troops killed during 1990's conflict is on a wall in Jasenovac, Central Croatia. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)
September 7, 2017, 8:37 pm
Croatia removes plaque with WWII pro-Nazi regime’s slogan near death camp
‘For the homeland — Ready! salute, used by puppet regime during war, has resurfaced among nationalists and right-wingers
By AP
Activists hold a banner reading 'Remove the Plaque' as Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic walks during a ceremony honoring the victims of its most brutal World War II death camp in Jasenovac, on April 23, 2017. (AFP/STRINGER)
April 23, 2017, 7:51 pm
Anti-fascists, Jews boycott Croatia memorial at WWII death camp
Opponents hold own memorial, denouncing what they believe to be a resurgence of sympathies for pro-Nazi Ustasha regime in government
By AFP
Illustrative: Members of the Jewish community walk in front of a memorial in the shape of a flower in Jasenovac on April 15. 2016. (AFP PHOTO / STRINGER)
April 23, 2017, 5:05 am
Croatia anti-fascists, Serbs gather at WWII death camp site
Commemoration ceremony comes as a protest at Zagreb’s refusal to remove pro-Nazi plaque at Jasenovac
By AP
A man looks at the World War II Jasenovac memorial camp model on April 26, 2015, during a ceremony to remember the tens of thousands who were killed by Croatia's pro-Nazi regime. (AFP/Stringer)
March 18, 2017, 3:56 am
Croatia Jews to snub WWII death commemoration — again
Boycott of ceremony comes in response to ongoing trivialization of role of Nazi-allied Ustasha regime and its symbols
By AFP
In this photo taken Sunday, Feb. 26, 2017, a group of right-wing radicals wave Croatian and US flags as they march through downtown Zagreb. (AP Photo)
March 3, 2017, 5:48 am
Croatia creates panel to study its pro-Nazi, Communist past
Jewish groups have complained move suggests a false equivalence and will encourage fascists
By AP
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a joint press conference with his Croatian counterpart Andrej Plenković, January 24, 2017. (Alex Kolomoisky/POOL)
January 24, 2017, 10:31 pm
Nazi hunter pans Israel for ‘abdicating its duty’ on Croatia Holocaust silence
Wiesenthal Center’s Efraim Zuroff says Netanyahu missed key opportunity to challenge Balkan state over growing revisionist trends
By JTA
Anne Frank's former bedroom in the 'Secret Anne,' the heart of the Anne Frank House museum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2012 (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)
January 24, 2017, 10:06 pm
Anger at Croatian school’s snub of Anne Frank exhibit
Head teacher drops exhibition because it included panels on crimes committed by country’s World War II pro-Nazi regime
By AFP
A man looks at the World War II Jasenovac memorial camp model on April 26, 2015, during a ceremony to remember the tens of thousands who were killed by Croatia's pro-Nazi regime. (AFP/Stringer)
January 24, 2017, 10:05 am
Croatian Jews to snub Holocaust day commemoration
Local community says authorities downplaying pro-Nazi Ustasha regime, which killed tens of thousands of Jews during WWII
By AFP
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