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"During World War II, Croatia became a fascist state under the control of the Croatian Fascist Party - allied with the Nazi Party in Germany. Here, Goran Miljan examines and analyzes for the first time the ideology, practices and international connections of the Ustasha Youth organization"--! Provided by publisher Paperback edition. x, 278 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

**Prof. Yeshayahu A. Jelinek** was an historian of East-Central Europe, particularly of Slovakia. He focused primarily on the history of the Jews in Slovakia, autochthonous fascism and antisemitism, the Holocaust, the tensions and overlaps between nationalism and communism, the German-Israeli relations. Yeshayahu Andrej Jelinek, born in Prievidza, Czechoslovakia, in 1933, was the younger son of Vojtech ...

The Year That Keeps Returning is Goldstein's astonishing historical memoir of that fateful year--when the Ustasha, the pro-fascist nationalists, were brought to power in Croatia by the Nazi occupiers of Yugoslavia. On April 10, when the German troops marched into Zagreb, the Croatian capital, they were greeted as liberators by the Croats. Three days later, Ante Pavelić, the future leader of the Independent ...

Miroslav (Fred) Schiller was born on Jan. 3, 1910 in Zagreb, Yugoslavia (now Croatia). He became a jazz musician and traveled throughout Europe and the Mediterranean. He returned to Zagreb to witness the beginnings of the Nazi rise to power. Shortly after, he fled to Split, Yugoslavia (now Croatia) which was in the Italian zone of occupation. Because they were in danger of deportation, his parents ...

"'Picturing Genocide in the Independent State of Croatia' examines the role which atrocity photographs played, and continue to play, in shaping the public memory of the Second World War in the countries of the former Yugoslavia. Focusing on visual representations of one of the most controversial and politically divisive episodes of the war -- genocidal violence perpetrated against Serbs, Jews, and ...

Contains information about questioning and deportations of Jews in Banjaluka and confiscation of Jewish property, details of terror against Jews in Bihać during 1941, details about seized buildings by Ustasha government, extortion of gold and silver, theft of synagogue's inventory, etc. Also contains records regarding torture of Jews in town of bijeljina, conducted by local Culturbund (local Germans). ...

"June 1998." lxv, 180 pages ; 28 cm.

Leo Gerskovic (1910-?) was born in Bucje, Austria-Hungary (now Croatia). He worked as an attorney in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, and was married to Inge, with whom he had a child. In 1936, he joined the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (CPY). Leo was arrested by the police later in the year for his communist activities, but he was released due to lack of evidence. On April 6, 1941, Germany and Italy, supported ...