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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
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
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, Friday, April 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Nikola Solic)
April 12, 2019, 8:11 pm
Croatian Jews, Serbs, anti-fascists, Roma gather at WWII death camp
Groups hold own commemoration at Jasenovac, boycotting official ceremony for fourth year because authorities tolerate nostalgia for country’s pro-Nazi past
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 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
Chief Nazi-hunter of the US-based Jewish rights group Simon Wiesenthal Center, Efraim Zuroff, during a conference in Jerusalem on January 26, 2017. (AFP/Thomas Coex)
January 10, 2019, 11:29 am
Jewish rights group urges Croatia to ban pro-Nazi book
Simon Wiesenthal Center says book by right-wing research group denies crimes committed by country’s Nazi-allied Ustasha regime
By AP
Eva Deutsch at home in New York, August 2018. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
October 10, 2018, 10:47 pm
From WWII partisan to modern art painter: A survivor’s story in living color
Eva Deutsch Costabel survived a brutal, little-known chapter of the Holocaust for Manhattan’s painting scene. A lifetime of artwork depicts her struggles on the way
By Luke Tress
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
A combination of picture made on April 23, 2017 shows French presidential election candidate for the En Marche ! movement Emmanuel Macron and French presidential election candidate for the far-right Front National (FN) party Marine Le Pen posing in Paris. (AFP PHOTO / Joël SAGET AND Eric Feferberg)
April 23, 2017, 2:23 pm
Projections put Le Pen, Macron ahead in French presidential race
Netanyahu at Holocaust memorial blames WWII Allies for failing to save Jews; Israel refuses to extradite teen JCC bomb hoaxer to US; 4 injured in terror attack at Tel Aviv beachfront hotels
By Tamar Pileggi
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)
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
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople (2L), considered as the spiritual head of Constantinople Patriarchate's Orthodox Christians, is pictured near the Stone Flower monument for the victims of the Jasenovac concentration camp as he visits the site of the former camp in Jasenovac, Croatia on September 10, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / STR)
September 10, 2016, 11:31 pm
Orthodox patriarch mourns victims at ‘Croatia’s Auschwitz’
Patriarch of Constantinople visits Jasenovac, a death camp operated by pro-Nazi regime from 1941-5 where at least tens of thousands died
By AFP
Croatian leaders honor the victims of the Balkan country's most notorious World War II death camp in Jasenovac on April 22, 2016. The ceremony was boycotted by critics who accuse rulers of tolerating a revival of pro-Nazi ideology. (STR/AFP)
April 29, 2016, 6:01 pm
Croatia’s Jews fear growing intolerance under conservatives
Opponents of new government say it is ignoring — even contributing to — neo-fascist, pro-Nazi nostalgia
By Lajla Veselica
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 22, 2016, 11:23 pm
Croatian leaders commemorate Nazi death camp victims
Memorial at ‘Croatia’s Auschwitz’ boycotted by critics who accuse state of tolerating surge in support for far-right nationalism
By AFP
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