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______________________________________________________________________________________ PRESS RELEASE

FIRST ANNUAL COMMEMORATION OF JASENOVAC TO BE HELD AT HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL PARK
IN NEW YORK CITY ON 21 APRIL 2002

On Sunday, 21 April 2002, a ceremony to honor the Victims and Survivors of the Jasenovac Concentration Camp and the Yugoslav Holocaust will be held from 2 to 3 PM at The Holocaust Memorial Park in Brooklyn, NY. A ceremony including a wreath laying, religious service and speeches by Survivors and scholars will accompany the placing of a plaque with a draft of the inscription for the future stone monument to be unveiled in the park later this year. The Holocaust Memorial Park, which is located at West End Avenue between Emmons Ave & Shore Blvd in the Sheepshead Bay section of Brooklyn, is the only monument park commemorating the Holocaust in the New York City area.

April 22nd marks the fifty-seventh anniversary of the breakout attempt by Jasenovac inmates. The memorial ceremony has been timed as closely as possible to mark this anniversary. The Jasenovac Research Institute intends to initiate an annual practice of holding commemorative ceremonies on this date. All those who support justice for and recognition of Yugoslav Holocaust Victims and Survivors are encouraged to enrich this ceremony with their participation.

JASENOVAC

Following the Nazi invasion and dismemberment of Yugoslavia in April 1941, the "Independent State of Croatia" was established as a pro-Nazi government. It was dedicated to a clerical-fascist ideology influenced both by Nazism and extreme Roman Catholic fanaticism. On coming to power, the Ustashe Party dictatorship in Croatia quickly commenced on a systematic policy of racial extermination of all Serbs, Jews and Roma living within its borders. From August 1941 to April 1945, hundreds of thousands of Serbs, tens of thousands of Jews and Roma, as well as anti-fascists of many nationalities, were murdered at the death camp known as Jasenovac. Estimates of the total number of men, women and children killed there have been put at 700,000. Jasenovac was not the only death camp in fascist-occupied Yugoslavia, but it was by far the largest in the entire Balkans region and the one in which a majority of the some one million victims of the Yugoslav Holocaust perished.

THE JRI – WHO WE ARE, WHAT WE DO, AND HOW TO SUPPORT OUR WORK

From the memory of those who survived, and from the passion of those who wish the truth to be known, came the Jasenovac Research Institute, a nonprofit foundation dedicated to building public awareness about the Holocaust in Yugoslavia and the furthering the search for justice for its Victims and Survivors. JRI promotes research and activities designed to enlighten the world to the crimes of genocide committed at Jasenovac and elsewhere in wartime Yugoslavia and aims to provide assistance to all groups and individuals who likewise seek justice for these victims.

JRI is a registered Section 501c3 non-profit corporation. Donations to JRI for the costs of the memorial stone, and to finance our other work, are tax-deductible (IRS reg. no. 38-3410276) and can be sent to:

Jasenovac Research Institute
PO Box 608
Monroe, MI 48162
USA

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