Commemorating the holocaust in public spaces: the case of Zagreb, Croatia
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This article examines Holocaust memorial culture in Croatia by focusing on the installation and reception of recent memorials in Zagreb, such as Stolpersteine (2020-) and the 2022 Monument to Victims of the Holocaust and the Ustaša Regime. It explores the impact Croatian state history had on shaping public understanding of the Holocaust, exposing persistent revisionist tendencies when determining culpability of World War II crimes. Croatian memorial culture is viewed through a theoretical framework that illustrates global challenges facing Holocaust memorialization, namely, the trivialization and relativization of Holocaust suffering and the inevitable generational remove from the historical occurrence itself.
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Commemorating the holocaust in public spaces: the case of Zagreb, Croatia. 2026: https://archive.jpr.org.uk/10.1080/17504902.2026.2631355
