President Shimon Peres and Croatian President Ivo Josipovic spoke at a memorial Sunday at the notorious concentration camp Jasenovac, which was the largest death camp in Croatia and Yugoslavia during the Holocaust.
Peres noted that the camp was different from many others in two ways: firstly, because most of its victims were not Jewish, but rather were ethnic Serbs, Roma, and Croatian opponents of fascism; and secondly, due to the “sheer sadism” of the camp, whose victims were often killed with knives, hammers and stones
Peres noted that the camp was different from many others in two ways: firstly, because most of its victims were not Jewish, but rather were ethnic Serbs, Roma, and Croatian opponents of fascism; and secondly, due to the “sheer sadism” of the camp, whose victims were often killed with knives, hammers and stones
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