Author: Barry Lituchy
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EU Parliament Receives Letter of Protest from JRI
“Dear Madam President, please cancel this repugnant and utterly disreputable conference praising a well-known Nazi criminal immediately.” JRI is outraged with the sponsoring of an event by the EU Parliament to glorify notorious Nazi collaborator Aloysius Stepinac. He was the Catholic archbishop of Croatia for the fascist Independent State of Croatia in WWII that was…
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Batinova Kosa
From the document “Sela Kotara Vrginmost u NOB“: Dušan Baić: KOTAR VRGINMOST U NO BORBI 1941 – 1945. The following has been translated to English from the Serbo-Croatian original produced in the Sixties in the old Yugoslavia. The original is available on archive.org at the address linked above. Many more villages are described we hope…
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JRI Conference “Jasenovac In The Context of Other Genocides in the 20th Century” Video Available
Sunday, May 1, 2022 Suggested donation $20 Sponsored by the Jasenovac Research Institute Prof. Gideon Greif “Two Hells on Earth: Auschwitz and Jasenovac: A Comparative View“ Aleksandar Stojanovic, PhD from the Institute for Recent History, Serbia: “On the Genocide Against Serbs and the Serbian Orthodox Church in the Independent State of Croatia 1941-1945“ Barry Lituchy,…
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“Dara of Jasenovac” Now Available for Streaming
You can now rent or purchase rights to view “Dara of Jasenovac.” This is the first international feature film regarding this neglected corner of the Holocaust, that was submitted for nomination for an Academy Award in 2021. We have waited 80 years for the world to witness the truth about our suffering in a proper…
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The Director and Producer of “Dara of Jasenovac” Speak Out on the Politically Biased Manipulation of the Film’s Reception
The world was never told about Jasenovac death camp, so sadistic Hitler was appalled. After seventy-five years of silence, a feature film was finally submitted for Academy Award nomination this year but was scuttled by politically motivated propagandists still seeking to hide their war crimes. The film’s director Predrag Antonijević, and Dr. Michael Berenbaum, Executive…
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Politically Biased Reviews Scuttle Nomination of “Dara of Jasenovac” for an Academy Award
Critics published outrageous criticisms of the film, Dara of Jasenovac, directed by Predrag ‘Gaga’ Antonijević, which portrays the experience of Serb, Jewish, Roma prisoners in the Jasenovac concentration camp complex during World War II.. Several characterized the motivation behind the making of the film as simply Serbian “nationalistic propaganda” and chiding Serbs for claiming victimhood…
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The Jasenovac Research Institute Mourns the Passing of Historian and JRI Colleague Jovan Mirković
It is with great sadness that we must report the death of our friend and colleague Jovan Mirković. Jovan Mirković was one of the most important historians and authorities on the history of the Holocaust in Yugoslavia, particularly focusing on and dedicating his life to research on the Independent State of Croatia’s genocide during the…
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Pope Pius XII, Accused of Silence During the Holocaust, Knew Jews Were Being Killed, Researcher Says
(Religion News Service) —The long-awaited opening of Pope Pius XII’s wartime records lasted only a week before the Coronova virus outbreak shut down the Vatican archives. But that was long enough for documents to emerge that reflect badly on the pontiff accused of silence during the Holocaust, according to published reports. In that week alone,…
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75th Anniversary of the Break-out from Jasenovac
As today we mark the 75th anniversary of the Break-out by the prisoners of Jasenovac, and the end of the Holocaust in Yugoslavia, it is time to stop and to reflect for a moment on how important it is for us to continue our work, and to keep the memory of the victims of the…
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COVID Cancellation
As is, it seems, for everyone, we must also sadly cancel our April Annual Conference due to the Coronavirus Pandemic. We are currently explore live-streaming as an alternative method to keeping our community strong and growing.
