Historian explains controversial Holocaust quotes
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Elli Wohlgelernter Dec. 30, 2002
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A well-known Yugoslav scholar has apologized for any misunderstanding regarding what he previously published on the role of Jews at the Jasenovac concentration camp, thereby defusing a potential showdown at a Holocaust conference on Sunday.
Dr. Milan Bulajic, who for many years headed the Museum of Genocide Victims in Belgrade and has written many books on the Holocaust in Yugoslavia and particularly on Jasenovac, made a dramatic apology Sunday for failing to present the historical context of testimonies published in his 1989 book Ustaski Zlocini Genocida (The Genocide Crimes of the Ustasha).
According to those testimonies - by Serb inmates of the camp who came under heavy pressure by the collaborationist administration in Belgrade to blame the Jews for the crimes committed there - Jews ran the camp and were actively involved in the mistreatment of Serb inmates, charges that Jewish historians say are totally exaggerated and are based primarily on false testimony made under duress by Serb inmates.
"I said I do apologize if this quotation resulted in misunderstanding," said Bulajic, speaking at the opening of the conference being held at Hebrew University. "I wrote 75 pages about genocide against Jews, and at the end, in the fourth volume, I quoted testimony from a Serb who was released from Jasenovac. I was just showing that it was not valid. I explained in 75 pages that it was not valid. I would appreciate if people would say what I was responsible for."
Dr. Bernard Klein, chairman of the conference, said the misunderstanding was "a matter of degree. There were some Jews who did behave that way. The problem was that Bulajic claimed that all the Jews acted this way. The testimony not presented in context, and the apology was accepted."
Klein said it was a 13-year misunderstanding because "nobody talked about it. That was the purpose of our coming here."
Dr. Efraim Zuroff, Israel director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, has worked with Bulajic in the past in bringing Croatian Nazi war criminals to justice. Zuroff demanded at the conference that the Yugoslav scholar publicly apologize for failing to explain the background and context of the testimonies.
"It was extremely important that this evidence was finally put into its proper historical context by Bulajic himself, who apologized for not explaining the historical circumstances. He has done much important work on the subject of the Holocaust, and therefore this was particularly important, and we are very happy this was clarified to our satisfaction, and that we can continue to work together in the future."
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