JASENOVAC RESEARCH INSTITUTE
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Mission Statement
The Jasenovac Research Institute was founded on the belief that the failure to learn the lessons of the genocides committed against Serbs, Jews and Romas during the Second World War rests at the very core of recent events in the Balkans. Jasenovac, which represents the greatest crimes of genocide ever committed in the Balkans, has been largely overlooked by Western scholars and Holocaust institutions. It is our belief that we can build a better world based on human rights and compassion for all peoples only through an understanding of the lessons of Jasenovac and the Holocaust. Every year we gather to commemorate April 22, 1945, the day of the self-liberation of the last prisoners of Jasenovac. We honor the hundreds of thousands of Serbs, Jews, Romas, and anti-fascists who were murdered by Croatian and German fascists. The Jasenovac Research Institute is dedicated to preserving the memory of Jasenovac, educating the world about the crimes committed there, and to the search for justice for its victims.
About This Cause
The Jasenovac Research Institute is a Holocaust educational and commemorative organization that has held an annual conference, dinner, and Board of Directors meeting every year since 2002 at which officers and Directors are elected annually and important scholars are invited to speak. We have also held annual commemorations every year since 2002 at the Holocaust Memorial Park in Brooklyn, NY, where monuments were established for the Jasenovac death camp (2005) and for the Jadovno killing site (2019). JRI also publishes books and an irregular magazine. In 2005 we published the long suppressed Black Book of the Yugoslav Jewish Federation from 1949 and in 2006 we published Jasenovac and the Holocaust in Yugoslavia. In early March 2019 JRI co-sponsored an event on the Holocaust in Croatia with Efraim Zuroff of the Simon Wiesenthal Institute in Jerusalem. In April 2021 JRI held a zoom conference with Michael Berenbaum and film director Predrag Antonijevic on the movie "Dara of Jasenovac." JRI has collaborated closely with Institute for the Holocaust Shem Olam in Israel as well as many other Holocaust organizations and scholars around the world. The JRI is actively engaged in a number of human rights campaigns to stop racism and neo-Nazism in all its forms and has been successful in its work for more than two decades. We are committed to a long term goal of establishing a center for Holocaust research and public meetings.