Naslov
Jasenovac in front of Challenges of Memory

Autori
Benčić, Andriana

Izvornik
REKOM Initiative Voice (2334-6744) 12 (2013), 2013; 15-17

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, ostalo

Ključne riječi
koncentracijski logor Jasenovac, teško ratno naslijeđe
(concentration camp Jasenovac, difficult war heritage)

Sažetak
The Memorial Museum of Memorial Site Jasenovac has a special status and a special mission among the museum monuments not only in the Republic of Croatia, but in the wider geographical region as well. Its specific historical background makes it a place of constant recontextualization. The general human tragedy inscribed in that place, and presented in the exhibition, must represent a constant challenge to every form of closing in, of hate and of intolerance. However, the question arises as to whether the Memorial Museum in Jasenovac does in fact present enough of a challenge to hatred and intolerance? As an historical and symbolic place, Jasenovac used to be and still is a rather controversial place of remembering, therefore it has been the theater of national conflicts and misappropriations. For instance, the files of the Trials in The Hague demonstrated how that very notion of ‘Jasenovac’ was an incentive for a whole chain of crimes that took place. In the Jasenovac Camp, which was the largest camp of incarceration, forced labor and death in the entire Independent State of Croatia at the time of WWII, the Ustashas brutally slaughtered Serbs, Roma and Jews, and Croats who were opponents of the Ustasha regime. The ordeal of numerous victims belonging to different ethnic and national groups, and the current inability of such groups to develop a communal memory, account for the major part of the Jasenovac trauma. The construction of memory has to be founded on the truth, as well as on a zealous engagement in finding paths to a communal dialogue at state/political level as well as at the equally important societal/cultural level.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Sociologija, Povijest

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