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The Influence/impact of the Roma Political - Intellectual Organizations and Prominent Individuals on the Commemoration of Roma Victims of the Second World War in Croatia

The suffering of the Roma in the Second World War can be considered a key historical event that influenced the overall history of the Roma. At the same time, the Roma suffering in the Independent State of Croatia almost destroyed the Roma population as a result of the Ustasha genocidal policy. After World War II, the Yugoslav socialist authorities suppressed a culture of remembrance of Roma victims as a consequence of an ideological policy of suppressing the ethnic identity of all war victims. Due to that, commemoration of Roma victims, erection of monuments and other features of memorialization of the Roma victims were suppressed. With the improvement of the political and social position of the Roma minority community in the Republic of Croatia from 2001, the systematic commemoration of Roma victims was initiated by Roma political representatives and Roma NGOs. Thus, since 2012, the central commemorative place for Roma victims in Croatia has become the Roma cemetery in the village of Ustice, which during the Second World War was the main execution site for Roma in the Jasenovac concentration camp. The next step in commemorating Roma victims was the opening of the Memorial Center in Ustice in 2020, which intention to become an institutional center for the memorialization of Roma suffering in the Second World War. The presentation will analyse the process of memorialization of Roma victims in Croatia, from the end of the Second World War until today.The research will analyse the influence of Roma organizations and prominent individuals on the process of commemorating Roma victims of the Second World War in Croatia

Roma, Commemoration, Second World War, Croatia.

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