![]() Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, Education on the Holocaust and on Anti‐Semitism. For information about the activities of the Jewish Historical Museum see Mihajlović, “The Jewish Historical Museum, Belgrade” and Mihajlović and Džidić, “Prikupljanje i istraživanje građe o holokaustu u Jevrejskom istorijskom muzeju u Beogradu.”ġ2. Jewish community organisations involved in Holocaust commemoration include the Belgrade‐based Jewish Historical Museum (the only institution in Serbia specifically devoted to the preservation of Holocaust memory), the Union of Jewish Communities of Serbia and local community organisations in Belgrade, Zemun, Niš, Apatin, Novi Sad and Zrenjanin. The focus of this paper is the treatment of the Holocaust outside Serbia’s Jewish community, so institutions and bodies affiliated to that community are not considered. Consistent with the views on the Holocaust expressed on other occasions, Nikolić completely omits to mention the fate of Jews, the community that had most to fear and least to hope for during the years of Nazi occupation Nikolić, Strah i Nada u Srbiji.ġ1. Nikolić and Rajić, “Balkanska povest sa oksfordskim akcentom.” In 2002, the publishing house of the Serbian Ministry of Education published Nikolić’s book Fear and Hope in Serbia, 1941–1944, which examines everyday life in Serbia under Nazi occupation. The book that came under criticism from Nikolić is the final volume in the Teaching Modern Southeast European History series, published under the auspices of the Centre for Democracy and Cooperation in South Eastern Europe (Erdelja, Workbook 4: The Second World War).ġ0. Bečanović and Stojanović, Istorijska čitanka za 8. Rajić et al., Istorija za 8.razred osnovne škole, 160.Ĩ. The book reflects the broader revisionist trends in the interpretation of the history of World War II which followed the fall of Milošević in 2000.ħ. It offers a favourable portrait of the head of the collaborationist government, Milan Nedić, and a positive evaluation of the Chetinks, whose patriotism is contrasted with the unpatriotic fanaticism of Tito’s partisans. This book contains also a controversial interpretation of the Nazi occupation of Serbia. Nikolić et al., Istorija za III razred gimnazije prirodno‐matematičkog smera i IV razred gimnazije opšteg i društveno‐jezičkog smera. The speech delivered by Zoran Lilić at the ceremony also mentioned “Jews, Serbs, Roma, women, children and partisans” who died at the camp, without specifically referring to the Holocaust or the role of Sajmište in the history of Hitler’s Final Solution.Ħ. ![]() Milan Koljanin, Nemački logor na Beogradskom Sajmištu for the history of the Holocaust in Serbia generally, see Manoschek, “The Extermination of Jews in Serbia” Browning, Fateful Months Božović, Stradanje Jevreja u okupiranom Beogradu Romano, Jevreji Jugoslavije 1941–1945 Lebl, Do ‘konačnog rešenja’.ĥ. For a detailed discussion of this topic in the context of Serbian Orthodox Culture see Byford, “‘Serbs Never Hated the Jews’” and Potiskivanje i poricanje antisemitizma, especially Chapter 5.Ĥ. ![]() ![]() As a result, with the onset of post‐Communism Yugoslavia remained, by and large, off the radar of critical scholarship.ģ. This is partly because, unlike in many other parts of Eastern Europe, for much of the post‐1945 period Yugoslavia’s Communist authorities allowed greater public recognition to be paid to the specifically Jewish tragedy of the war period (see Gitelman, “History, Memory and Politics”, 26 Gordiejew, Voices of Yugoslav Jewry). Shafir, “Between Denial and ‘Comparative Trivialisation’ ” Braham, Anti‐Semitism and the Treatment of the Holocaust in Post‐Communist Eastern Europe idem, The Treatment of the Holocaust in Hungary and Romania during the Post‐Communist Era Volovici, “Antisemitism in Post‐Communist Eastern Europe.”Ģ. ![]()
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