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International conference on Holocaust in Sarajevo
Updated: 12/Oct/2006 17:15
Jasenovac was the largest concentration and extermination camp in Croatia. It was set up in 1941 and functioned until 1945.Some 600,000 people were murdered there. In 1945, the remaining prisoners were killed and the camp was blown up to hide the evidence of mass murder.
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SARAJEVO (AFP/EJP)--- Sarajevo is to host this month an international conference on Holocaust studies in southeastern Europe, organizers said Thursday.

The aim of the conference is to "define areas in need for further investigation" as the "research and teaching on the Holocaust in the post-communist countries of southeastern Europe has fallen well behind this international development," the German Goethe Institute, co-organizing the event, said in a statement.

Several dozen participants from the region -- from Albania, Bosnia, Croatia, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia -- will participate in a three-day conference that is to begin on October 27, it added.

Participants from the United States, Great Britain, Germany and Israel are also to take part, it added.

The conference is also to explore possible links between responsible confrontation with the murder of Europe's Jews by the Nazis and the current issues of reconciliation in the countries of former Yugoslavia, that fell apart in the early 1990s in bloody conflicts.

During World War II hundreds of thousands of Jews, but also Serbs, Roma and anti-fascist Croatians were killed in concentration camps set up by Croatia's pro-Nazi Ustasha regime.

The most notorious was Jasenovac camp complex, known as Croatia's Auschwitz, with the number of its victims still disputed varying from tens of thousands to 700,000.

Today around 400 Jews live in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

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