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Third Conference on Jasenovac to be held in Jerusalem, 29-30 December 2002
(Tentative schedule published 16 December 2002)


ELEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN JERUSALEM, ISRAEL

The Holocaust From the Perspective of The 21st Century and
THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
on Jasenovac the Anatomy of Neglected
Concentration Camps


Sunday, December 29, 2002
to
Monday, December 30, 2002

Belgium House
Hebrew University
Givat Ram Campus
Jerusalem, Israel

Phone: Jerusalem - 011-97225660192
New York - (718) 368 - 5417
Fax - (718) 368 - 4654
E-mail: CAdelstein@kbcc.cuny.edu

(1)
Sunday, December 29, 2002
Belgium House
9:00 A.M. - 9:30 A.M.
Registration and Coffee

9:30 A.M. - 1:00 P.M.
Chair: Dr. Bernard Klein
Kingsborough Community College, CUNY

JASENOVAC -JEWISH SERBIAN HOLOCAUST AND
THE ROLE OF THE VATICAN IN
USTASHA CROATIA,
1941 - 1945
Dr. Milan Bulajic
Museum of Genocide Victims
Belgrade, Yugoslavia

JASENOVAC - THE UNHEALED WOUND
Rabbi Josef Atijas
Republica Srpska

THE ROLE OF CATHOLIC CLERICS IN PERSECUTION AND CONVERSION OF SERBIAN ORTHODOX POPULATION IN INDEPENDENT STATE OF CROATIA DURING WORLD WAR II
Dr. Thomas Popovich
Nassau Community College

THE NUMBERS OF JASENOVAC VICTIMS
Dr. Ephraim R. Zuroff
Director, Simon Wiesenthal Israel Center
Jerusalem, Israel

1:00 P.M. - 2:00 P.M. Lunch Break

2:00 P.M. - 5:30 P.M.
Chair: Dr. Ephraim Zuroff
Wiesenthal Center, Jerusalem

(2)
METHODOLOGY FOR COLLECTING SURVIVOR=S VIDEO TESTIMONIES
Dr. Wanda Schindley
Texas A and M University - Commerce

RESULT OF RESEARCH, ARCHIVES AND DOCUMENTATION RELATED TO MEMORIAL AREA OF JASENOVAC CAMPS
Mr. Slavko Goldstein
President of Council of the Memorial Site Jasenovac
Zagreb

JASENOVAC AND THE SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH
Prof. Jovan Culibrk
Saint Peter Seminary
Centinje

ROMANI VICTIMS IN JASENOVAC
Dragoljub Ackovic
President Romani Congress
Belgrade

EXTERMINATION OF CHILDREN IN JASENOVAC
Cadik Danon
Survivor and Author
Belgrade

Monday, December 30, 2002
Belgium House
9:00 A.M. - 9:30
Registration and Coffee

9:30 A.M. - 1:00 P.M
Chair: Professor Nitza Druyan
Hofstra University, NY

(3)
THE SUFFERINGS OF THE JEWS IN THE REGION OF SREM IN THE CONCENTRATION CAMP IN JASENOVAC 1941 - 1945
Dr. Mladenko Kumovic
Professor Zorica Stefanovic
Museum of Voz Vozvodina
Nov Sad, Yugoslavia

THE GENOCIDAL MENTALITY: NAZI HOLOCAUST AND NUCLEAR THREAT
Dr. Eric Markusen
Dr. Vicky Brockman
Southwest State University, Marshall, Minnesota

SONG OF SONGS IN AUSCHWITZ
Dr. Lily Zamir
The David Yellin Teacher College
Jerusalem, Israel

SERB, JEWISH AND ROMANI VICTIMS IN CROATIA EXPOSED AND DOCUMENTED
Professor Srboljub Zivanovic
London, England

TESTIMONIES OF JEWISH SURVIVORS FROM JASENOVAC
Jasa Almuli, Author
London, England

1:00 P.M. - 2:00 P.M.
Lunch Break

2:00 P.M. - 3:00 P.M.
Chair: Dr. Phyllis Palgi
Israel

SHOAH MEMORIES AND TERROR: LITERARY EXPRESSION
Dr. Nitza Druyan
Hofstra University

(4)
TEACHING HOLOCAUST FICTION BY SECOND GENERATION WRITERS
Ms. Anna Petrov Bumble
Brandeis University, Boston

THE APPLICATION OF MODERN TECHNOLOGIES IN RESEARCH OF MASS GRAVES IN THE SYSTEM OF JASENOVAC USTASHA CAMPS
Jasmin Babic
Grad. Eng. of Geodesy

3:00 P.M. - 5:30 P.M.
PLENARY SESSION
Chair: Dr. Bernard Klein
Kingsborough Community College, CUNY

1. Prosecution of Ustasha leaders including a reopening of the Shakich Trials
2. Identification of Jasenovac Genocide Victims
3. The Research Project Donje Gradina
4. International Protection of Jasenovac Memorial Area
5. Antisemitism in Croatia

Sponsors:
International Commission on Jasenovac

Kingsborough Community College
Department of History, Philosophy
& Political Science

Academy for Jewish Philosophy
Hebrew University

John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Graduate School and University Center: Judaic Studies

Humanities Department
New York City Technical College

Philosophy and Religion Department
Pace University

Jewish Faculty Association of CUNY

Conference Chairman
Dr. Bernard Klein
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