Report of the Editorial Board of the

International Steering Committee working

on Renewing the “ex-Yugoslav” Exhibition

in the State Museum

Auschwitz – Birkenau

International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance

Manchester 1 – 5 December 2014

Nataša Mataušić, Croatian History Musem, Zagreb

Olga Manojlović Pintar, Institute for Recent History of Serbia, Belgrade

Kaja Širok, National Museum of Contemporary History, Ljubljana

1963

Opening of the Yugoslav Exhibition

1964

Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito visited the

State Museum Auschwitz – Birkenau

1988

Renovation of the Yugoslav Exhibition

2009

Closing of the Exhibition

Yugoslavia no longer existed as a state

The exhibition exposed only copies of photographs and

documents, which mainly could be seen in other national settings

All textual explanations were only in Serbian and Polish.

The ideological and political realities were changed

Some historic data were not precise, or were incorrect

2011 Initial meeting in Belgrade

Proposition that the new exhibition should be realized as a

“joint project” of all the successor states of Yugoslavia

2012 Second Meeting in Belgrade

International Steering Committee was organized

It included:

The representatives of the Ministries of Culture of six

respective countries

The experts in the fields of the Holocaust, history of the

Second World War and the memory culture

Reasons for the decision to create the joint project

• Methodological

• Theoretical

• Museological

• Terminological

Five Meetings

Organized by the UNESCO Venice Office within the framework of the

global initiative “Culture: a Bridge to Development”

2012 June Belgrade

2012 December Sarajevo

2013 April Skopje

2013 July Oswiecim

2014 February Zagreb

.

2013 Third Meeting in Skopje

Establishment of the Editorial Board

(the representatives of Croatia, Slovenia and Serbia

were elected in the Editorial Board)

Collected Materials

Summary table containing the information on Semlin Concentration

Camp inmates and their transports to Auschwitz and other camps

Letters of the Inmates

Telegrams

Diaries of the Inmates

The Cloth Patches and Badges

Cloths of the Inmates

The Food Containers

Four thematic chapters of investigation

1. Time and Space

2. Victims

3. Perpetrators and Collaborators

4. Resistance

1918

Creation of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia

1945

Creation of the Socialist Yugoslavia

The Beginning of the WWII and the Division of

Yugoslavia

Pre-war Jewish life in Yugoslavia

Jews in the Anti-Fascist Movement

Lea Deutsch, Zagreb

Ludvig Drelih from Sombor

Clara Gereb Fenyves, Subotica

Tonka Čeč, Trbovlje

Oleg Mandić, Rijeka

The Anti-Fascist Movement

Discriminatory policy against the Roma population

Perpetrators and Collaborators

Emanuel Schafer Bruno Sattler gen Franz Boehme

Ante Pavelić Ivan Tolj Andrija Artuković

Milan Nedić Dragi Jovanović Dimitrije Ljotić

Leon Rupnik Lurker Lovro Hacin

Trials in Novi Sad Leo Deak Gyula Zombori

Database

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Reference

Fotografije

Dokumenti

Predmeti

Izjave

(-) ženski

Transport od

159 žena iz

Beograda od

15.7.1943. 49819 Aušvic

Državni muzej

Aušvic

Birkenau u

Osvjenšćinu

popis transporta

od 15.7. 1943.

iz Beograda

(-) ženski

Transport od

159 žena iz

Beograda od

15.7.1943. 49820 Aušvic

Državni muzej

Aušvic

Birkenau u

Osvjenšćinu

popis transporta

od 15.7. 1943.

iz Beograda

(-) ženski

Transport od

159 žena iz

Beograda od

15.7.1943. 49821 Aušvic

Državni muzej

Aušvic

Birkenau u

Osvjenšćinu

popis transporta

od 15.7. 1943.

iz Beograda

Enes Milak (1947 – 2014)