[Marxism] JASENOVAC COMMEMORATION, 25 APRIL 2004

["David Quarter" <davidquarter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From:                   Miroslav Antic

JASENOVAC RESEARCH INSTITUTE
"LET THE TRUTH BE KNOWN"

PO BOX 10-0674
                    BROOKLYN, NY 11210


www.jasenovac.org

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JRI Press Release

APRIL 10, 2004
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

THIRD ANNUAL JASENOVAC DAY OF COMMEMORATION
CEREMONY TO BE HELD AT  NEW
YORK'S HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL PARK IN BROOKLYN ON
APRIL 20, 2004 AT 3 PM

On Sunday, April 25, 2004, the Jasenovac Research Institute will
hold its
third annual Holocaust commemoration ceremony to honor and
remember the
victims
and Survivors of the Holocaust in Yugoslavia and their families. The
ceremony
will include a wreath laying, religious service and speeches by
Survivors,
scholars and political leaders.  The ceremony comes one year after
the
approval of
an inscribed monument dedicated to the memory of those who
perished in the
largest Nazi camp in the Balkans, Jasenovac, by the Holocaust
Memorial Park
Committee.

April 22nd marks the fifty-ninth anniversary of the heroic attempted
breakout
by the imprisoned victims of the Jasenovac camps. The memorial
is timed to
coincide as closely as possible with that date. Among those invited
to
attend
are elected U.S. government officials, representatives of the
governments of

Serbia & Montenegro, Republika Srpska, and
the state of Israel, as well as UN officials.

The Holocaust Memorial Park, which is located at West End
Avenue between
Emmons Ave & Shore Blvd in the Sheepshead Bay section of
Brooklyn, is the
only
monument  park commemorating the Holocaust in the New York
City area.
Directions
are below.

The names of loved ones lost at Jasenovac will be read and
candles lit in
their memory.  A religious service in honor of the estimated
700,000 who
were
killed there will be performed by Father Djokan Majstorovic, Priest
of St.
Sava's
Serbian Orthodox Church in Manhattan.  A permanent monument
to the victims
is
to be erected in the park.  The work of commemorating and
educating the
world
to the lessons of the crimes of Jasenovac are the fundamental
steps to the
establishment of peace and justice in the future.  It is our obligation
to
our
families to see this work through and the duty of a people.

The day of the breakout, April 22nd, was the last day the camp
operated.  A
passage recounting those last heroic moments by an eyewitness
recalls how
the
starving prisoners sacrificed their lives to overcome the Croatian
guards
and
run a gauntlet of machine gun and rifle fire. They did this not so
much to
save
themselves but so that just one of them might live to tell the world
what
happened there.  All present at this year's ceremony shall likewise
rededicate
themselves to that same goal. All who support justice and
recognition for
Yugoslav Holocaust victims and Survivors are encouraged to enrich
this
commemoration
with their participation.

What was Jasenovac?

Following the Nazi invasion and dismemberment of Yugoslavia in
April 1941,
the "Independent State of Croatia" was established by Hitler as a
pro-Nazi
regime.  Dedicated to a clerical-fascist ideology, it commenced on
a
systematic
policy of racial extermination of all Jews, Serbs, and Romas living
within
its
borders.  From August 1941 to April 1945 hundreds of thousands of
these
three
groups along with anti-fascists of other nationalities were killed at
the
complex of camps known as Jasenovac which lay along the Sava
River in
central
Croatia.  Jasenovac was among the largest and most brutal of
concentration
camps
during the Holocaust.  Jasenovac was the largest of the
concentration camps
established during the Nazi occupation of the Balkans. Recognition
of the
Jasenovac death camps has been ignored, suppressed, or
neglected by many
U.S.
institutions over the years. And yet the consequences of this event
led to
the
destruction of Yugoslavia and the revival of neo-fascism in Croatia,
Bosnia
and
Kosovo, leaving a path of death and destruction still unhalted to
this day.
It
is believed that as many as 700,000 Serbs, Jews and Romas as
well as
anti-fascists of many other nationalities were murdered at
Jasenovac in the
most
brutal ways in what were surely the worst war crimes ever
committed in the
Balkans.
No  honest discussion of genocide or human rights in the Balkans
can begin
without the history of Jasenovac.

The Jasenovac Research Institute

This ceremony is sponsored by the Jasenovac Research Institute.
If you agree

with this project and would like to help you can send your tax
deductible
contributions to Jasenovac Research Institute, PO Box 10-0674,
Brooklyn, NY
11210.
If you would like to more information you may contact us on the
web at
www.jasenovac.org.  The Jasenovac Research Institute is a fully
accredited
501c3
non-profit organization dedicated to building public awareness and
promoting

education and activities designed to enlighten the world about the
crimes of

genocide committed at Jasenovac. Let the history be known!

TRAVEL DIRECTIONS TO THE COMMEMORATION

By Car From Manhattan: Take the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
(BQE) Westbound
to
the Belt Parkway. You will travel on the Belt Eastbound and exit at
Exit 8
(Coney Island Ave.). Follow signs for Kingsborough. Be warned that
Exit 8
follows closely upon Exit 7.

The exit leaves you on Guilder Ave. You will take Guilder straight -
past
Coney Island Ave - and to its end at East 12th Street.  Make a
right turn on

East
12th St. Then make an immediate left turn (at the light) onto
Neptune Ave.
You will then make another rapid turn - your first possible right -
onto
Cass
Place (also at a light).  Take Cass Place about 2 blocks past the
light.
West
End Ave. and the Park are immediately on your left. You can find
parking on
the
streets adjoining the park. Please follow posted parking regulations.

By Car From New Jersey:  Take any of the 3 or 4 bridges going to
Staten
Island and head onto the Verrazano's Narrows Bridge (no toll out of
Staten
Island).
Exit the bridge onto the Belt Parkway going East.  Now follow the
directions

from Manhattan.

By Car From Queens  or Long Island:  Take the Belt Parkway
West to Exit 8
(Coney Island Ave.).  At the end of the exit turn right onto Voorhies
Ave.
Make
another right from Voorhies onto Sheepshead Bay Road at the first
light.
Take
Sheepshead Bay Road to the end (2 lights) and make a right turn.
Make your
first possible left turn at the second light onto West End Ave.  The
Holocaust
Memorial Park is on this block on your left. You may park on any
of the
adjoining streets. Please follow posted parking regulations.

By Bus:  The B-49 Bus stops within one block of the Holocaust
Park. Any bus
connection to the B-49 bus is good.

By Subway:  The best lines to take are the D or the Q trains.  Both
go to
Sheepshead Bay Station. Remember to get a transfer ticket at the
token
booth.
In
front of the train station is a bus stop for the B-49 bus.

We at the JRI know of your heartfelt commitment to the cause of
Jasenovac
awareness and look very much forward to your presence at the
ceremony.
Please
do
not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.


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