Naslov
Forgotten places of crimes against illegal marginals or about places of mass crimes against the Roma population in the Independent State of Croatia

Autori
Vojak, Danijel ; Jakopović, Dunja

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, pp prezentacija, znanstveni

Skup
The transnational history and memory of World War II crimes in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, and the northern Adriatic

Mjesto i datum
Online ; Regensburg, Njemačka, 12.05.2023. - 14.05.2023

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Roma, Sinti, Independent State of Croatia, Hrastina, Marija Gorica, mass crime, Ustasha, distortion, memory culture.

Sažetak
At the end of April 1945, Ustasha soldiers arrested, tortured and killed a group of 43 German Sinti in the village of Hrastina, near Zagreb. The aforementioned Sinti were circus artists who organized circus shows in those days. This mass crime was one of a series of similar mass crimes committed against Roma by Ustasha soldiers. What distinguishes the crime in Hrastina is the fact that after the war, a distortion of memory culture took place around it, visible in the fact that the authorities and the local organization of partisan veterans erected a monument in 1977 in memory of these victims, but the victims were considered Jews, and the perpetrators as the SS military unit. Such a distortion of memory was dominant in the Croatian memory culture until 2021, when, based on scientific research, it was proven that these were Sinti (Roma) victims and that the perpetrators were Ustasha soldiers. The paper analyzes the case of a mass crime in Hrastina as an example of the distortion of the culture of memory of the Roma victims of genocide in the Second World War.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Povijest

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