Croatian Jews condemn Ustasha funeral

Croatia’s Jewish community has objected to the way the funeral of a WW2 Ustasha camp commander was organized.

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Thursday, 31.07.2008.

10:50

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Croatia’s Jewish community has objected to the way the funeral of a WW2 Ustasha camp commander was organized. Dinko Sakic, a former commander at the Jasenovac death camp, died on July 20. Croatian Jews condemn Ustasha funeral “Burying the commander of the Jasenovac death camp in his Ustasha uniform, and the speech by the priest Vjekoslav Lasic, who said that the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) was the foundation of today’s ‘Croatian Homeland’, have impelled us to bring to the attention of the Croatian public and government that a funeral is a public gathering, and that several transgressions took place during that funeral,” a statement reads. Vice-President of the Jewish Community Jasminka Domas claimed “the disgraceful events that occurred at the funeral of Dinko Sakic in Zagreb insult the memory of all the victims of the Ustasha regime, and besmirch the Republic of Croatia’s good name.” Director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Jerusalem Efraim Zuroff has written to Croatian President Stjepan Mesic to express his anger at the way Sakic’s funeral was organized and at the priest’s speech. Sakic, who died aged 87, served his sentence in Lepoglava prison, but was transferred to the prison hospital in Zagreb on health grounds.

Croatian Jews condemn Ustasha funeral

“Burying the commander of the Jasenovac death camp in his Ustasha uniform, and the speech by the priest Vjekoslav Lasić, who said that the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) was the foundation of today’s ‘Croatian Homeland’, have impelled us to bring to the attention of the Croatian public and government that a funeral is a public gathering, and that several transgressions took place during that funeral,” a statement reads.

Vice-President of the Jewish Community Jasminka Domas claimed “the disgraceful events that occurred at the funeral of Dinko Šakić in Zagreb insult the memory of all the victims of the Ustasha regime, and besmirch the Republic of Croatia’s good name.”

Director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Jerusalem Efraim Zuroff has written to Croatian President Stjepan Mesić to express his anger at the way Šakić’s funeral was organized and at the priest’s speech.

Šakić, who died aged 87, served his sentence in Lepoglava prison, but was transferred to the prison hospital in Zagreb on health grounds.

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