Exhibition dedicated to the Holocaust in Croatia opens in Zagreb

The exhibition dedicated to the remembrance of the dead from the Holocaust in Croatia opens in the French Pavilion in Zagreb on February 5, reports Radio Slobodna Europa (media foreign agent). Many materials and exhibits were used at the exhibition, which will be presented at the exhibition in the memorial complex on the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Polish Auschwitz. There will be a large exposition of exhibits collected in all republics of the former Yugoslavia. Today 's exhibition in Zagreb is called If I forget you. Holocaust in Croatia 1941 1945. The last place Auschwitz refers to the events of the Second World War and crimes not only of Nazi Germany, but also of the authorities of the Independent Croatian State of the Ustash regime, on whose account tens of thousands of killed Serbs, Roma, Jews in the concentration camp Yasenovac. Photographic materials and documents, video evidence, as well as rare surviving items from death factories are intended to convey to visitors the historical context, To describe the system of terror against Jews, Serbs and Gypsies established by the Ustaše regime, Communists and anti-fascists and Yasenovac as a symbol of their suffering, because most Croat and Bosnian Jews were killed in this and other camps before mass deportation to Auschwitz in 1942 and 1943. Croatian Prime Minister Andrei Plabković and other ministers are expected to come to the opening. The exhibition will be free for visitors and will work until April 21 of Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel, and then will be shown in Croatian museums, starting with the cities of Koprivnica and Osijek.