World War II persecution of Serbs

The Jasenovac concentration camp was an extermination camp established in Slavonia by the authorities of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) during World War II. The camp was established by the governing Ustaše regime and not operated by Nazi Germany.

The Youth Initiative for Human Rights - Croatia has "taped over" a memorial plaque in Jasenovac that features a fascist slogan.

Serb politicians have condemned a memorial plaque with a fascist slogan which was installed by Croatian war veterans and right-wing politicians near the Jasenovac WWII concentration camp.

The Great School Class - an annual anti-war commemorative gathering - was held in the memorial park Sumarice, near Kragujevac, central Serbia.

The event honors the thousands of local civilians, that included school children and their teachers, executed on October 21, 1941, by the occupying German Nazi forces.

From August 1941 to April 1945, hundreds of thousands of Serbs, Jews, and Romas, as well as anti-fascists of many nationalities, were murdered at the death camp known as Jasenovac.

Senior ministers attended the official annual commemoration at the Jasenovac concentration camp, but Croatian Serbs held a separate event amid an ongoing dispute about the country’s Nazi-allied WWII regime.

The anniversary of the Novi Sad Raid - during which several thousand citizens were murdered, their bodies thrown under the Danube ice - was marked on Friday.

The massacres were committed by the occupying Hungarian fascist forces from January 4 until January 29, 1942, targeting the local Serb, Jewish, and Roma population.

ZAGREB - On the occasion of 70 years since the breakthrough of Jasenovac camp inmates, President of the Serb National Council in Croatia Milorad Pupovac called on the Croatian society to resist "the atmosphere of fascization and nazization."

BELGRADE - The Memorial Day for the victims of Jasenovac marks the date of the liberationv of this concentration camp run by the Ustasha, one of the worst death camps in World War Two Europe, which some historians have dubbed the Serbian Auschwitz.

DONJA GRADINA - The ceremony to mark April 22 as the Memory day in honour of genocide victims in the Jasenovac concentration camp began by wreath-laying at the memorial place in the Donja Gradina Memorial Centre in Republika Srpska (RS).