Croatian School Removes Anne Frank Exhibition

[TomSea]

Croatian School Removes Anne Frank Exhibition

An exhibition on Anne Frank was removed from a school in the town of Sibenik over claims the Croatian WWII fascist Ustasa fighters were depicted as villains and anti-fascist Partisans as innocents.

Sven Milekic  BIRN  Zagreb

A travelling exhibition about Holocaust victim and diarist Anne Frank was removed from a high school in the coastal town of Sibenik after the school’s director complained that it portrayed the Croatian fascist Ustasa movement negatively, local media reported on Thursday.

The educational exhibition for pupils depicts the life of Anne Frank but also shows the broader context of World War II and the Holocaust, as well as its effects on Croatia and the region, highlighting crimes committed against Serbs, Jews, Roma and anti-fascist by the Ustasa.

School director Josip Belamaric asked the organisers of the exhibition, the Hermes NGO – local partner of the Amsterdam-based Anne Frank House museum – to remove six panels describing the local context of the war.

Continued: http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/croatian-school-shocks-by-cancelling-anne-frank-exhibition-01-20-2017

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"What about the crimes committed by the Partisans?”

That's a good question. Using the exhibit to whitewash communism is unconscionable. 

[The_Reader_David]

"What about the crimes committed by the Partisans?”

That's a good question. Using the exhibit to whitewash communism is unconscionable.

 

Actually, the main crime of Communism relevant to the story was the failure of the Yugoslav Communists to de-Ustashify Croatia.  The garden-variety war crimes of Tito's partisans are insignificant compared to what the Ustashe did -- the third largest extermination camp in Europe was Jasanovac, dedicated not to the mass-murder of Jews, but to the mass murder of Serbs, and the Ustashe were reprimanded by the SS for showing too much enthusiasm and using too barbaric of methods in their campaign of mass murder.

The adoption of the Ustashe-era flag upon the declaration of Croatian independence had the same sort of effect on the Serbs that adopting the swastika flag as the flag of reunified Germany would have had on Jews, and contributed mightily to the now much-vilified desire of Serbs left in Croatia to secede and join Serbia.