EJP | News | Eastern Europe | Croatia's concentration camp to become memorial

The notorious Jasenovac concentration camp in Croatia is to have a memorial consisting of 70,000 people name’s that were murdered there during the Holocaust. The memorial which was unveiled on the 18th of January will be formally opened in the spring. The memorial will focus on the individuals and will include lectures and discussions on the Holocaust. Croatia facing its past Israel’s ambassador to Croatia, Shmuel Meirom, who attended the ceremony in the village of Jasenovac said the memorial was proof that Croatia was "willing to face the dark sides of its past." Jasenovac was the largest concentration and extermination camp in Croatia during the World War II. It was established by the Ustasa regime of the Independent State of Croatia in 1941 and headed by Miroslav Majstorovic. The Ustasa was a Croatian far-right party put in charge of Croatia by the Nazis during the Second Warold War in which they mirrored some of the Nazi’s worst excesses.