Jasenovac Concentration Camp

This book presents state-of-the-art discussions around the concentration camp Jasenovac. Initially one of the largest camps of the Second World War, Jasenovac became a symbol of supra-national unity during the Yugoslav period and in the 1990s re-emerged as a contested symbol of narrational victimhood. By analyzing some of the most controversial topics related to the Second World War in south-eastern Europe – the Holocaust, the genocide of Serbs and Roma, the issues of political prisoners and state-sponsored crimes, censorship during Communist Yugoslavia, the use of memory in war propaganda, and representation of tragedies in museums and art – the book allows for a greater understanding of the development of intergroup violence in the former Yugoslavia. It will be of interest to scholars and students of history, genocide studies, memory studies, and sociology as well as professionals working in the field of conflict resolution and reconciliation.

Andriana Benčić Kužnar is an assistant professor of Military Sociology at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb (Croatia). She published the book Memory of the Croatian War of Independence in 2020. Her research interest lies in the intersection of nationhood and identity with collective memories of war and political uses of the past.

Danijela Lucić is an assistant professor of Military Sociology at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb (Croatia). She published the book State Terrorism in 2019, and three co- authored books in the fields of war studies, security studies, and qualitative and quantitative research.

Stipe Odak is a researcher and lecturer at the Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium). He received his PhD in Political and Social Sciences from UC Louvain and a doctorate in Theology from KU Leuven (Belgium). His research focuses on the intersections of memory, religion, and conflicts.