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The Holocaust – the most brutal Genocide of the Second World War

The Balkan soil was consistently, for the world and for itself a subject of political, strategic and geographical interests. As such, it has at the same time been a participant and a witness to a tumultuous history, whose profession as a credible fighter and warrior has always been proudly worn. They say everything is permitted in love and war, but to what limits of humanity, ethics, and empathy can the human mind reach, and with what brutal and ruthless ease and force can it break and cross them?What is the price of such monstrous ventures? Deaths of so many innocent people, the cruel torture, exile from their countries, abuse, humiliation and murder are merely descriptions that most closely depict the lives of Jews, Roma, Serbs, and all those who have been imposed on the territory of the former Yugoslavia by such a common destiny, whose meaning will never be left by anyone but these victims to comprehend and to know. The consequences of genocide and the Holocaust are still visible today. The atrocities committed in that war are eternal, as are the victims. The memory of these people must never be forgotten. The more we point out past mistakes, the less likely they are to happen again. Knowledge, recollection and insight into the significance of the consequences that a certain regime has brought and committed in a given period of time, influences such history never to be repeated again. Through historical review, this paper presents the suffering of Jews, Roma, Serbs, and all people in the aftermath of the Holocaust in the former Yugoslavia. All three nations, as well as members of the resistance movement and other anti-fascists, were targeted by the occupier and his allies. According to the information and data found in documents at the Auschwitz camp in Poland, the Nazis deported a total of more than one million Jews (1, 100, 000), 10, 000 of whom were from Yugoslavia and 23, 000 Roma across Europe. Around 900, 000 Jews were killed in the gas chambers immediately upon arrival and selection, while around 200, 000 were registered at a camp where more than half died as a result of brutal treatment by SS officers and prison officials due to work that exceeded human strength and endurance, due to starvation and malnutrition, the dire hygiene conditions that have caused a number of illnesses and epidemics, further selection in camp. At the same time, by analyzing historical facts in the territory of the former Yugoslavia and according to estimates made on the basis of the first exhumations by the State Commission of the FPRY, later confirmed by the “Simon Wiesenthal Center”, 500, 000 Serbs, 80, 000 Roma, 32, 000 Jews and tens of thousands of anti- fascists of different nationalities, including more than 20, 000 children, were brutally murdered in the “Jasenovac” concentration camp. Of the approximately 82, 000 Jews who lived in the territory of the former Yugoslavia, 67, 000 (81.7%) and 4, 000 Jewish refugees lost their lives, which means that the total killed 71, 000 Jews (82.56%), of the 86, 000 that lived in the territory of the former Yugoslavia during World War II.

holocaust consequences, genocide, victims, suffering, human rights, anti-Semitism

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