What Croatian WWII concentration camp has Shimon Peres recently visited?”
Peres: Croatian WWII camp was a show of ’sadism’ JASENOVAC, Croatia — Touring the site of Croatia’s World War II concentration camp, Israeli President Shimon Peres said Sunday it was a demonstration of “sheer sadism” and that Iran’s president, who has denied the Holocaust, should visit it. Peres and Croatian President Ivo Josipovic toured Jasenovac, where a memorial honors about 85,000 of Jews, Serbs, Gypsies and anti-fascist Croats who died here in 1941-45 at the hands of Croatia’s pro-Nazi regime. Thousands of people also were deported from Croatia to Nazi-run camps where they died. Peres used the opportunity to refer to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s denials of the Holocaust. “I wish I would see him here,” Peres said. “And I’m asking myself why does he deny (it)?” the Israeli leader said. “To permit the legitimacy of continuity to kill.” Jasenovac, the worst of about 40 camps in Croatia at the time, didn’t have a gas chamber. Inmates, including the elderly and children, wer
JASENOVAC, Croatia — Touring the site of Croatia’s World War II concentration camp, Israeli President Shimon Peres said Sunday it was a demonstration of “sheer sadism” and that Iran’s president, who has denied the Holocaust, should visit it. Peres and Croatian President Ivo Josipovic toured Jasenovac, where a memorial honors about 85,000 of Jews, Serbs, Gypsies and anti-fascist Croats who died here in 1941-45 at the hands of Croatia’s pro-Nazi regime. Thousands of people also were deported from Croatia to Nazi-run camps where they died. Peres used the opportunity to refer to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s denials of the Holocaust. “I wish I would see him here,” Peres said. “And I’m asking myself why does he deny (it)?” the Israeli leader said. “To permit the legitimacy of continuity to kill.” Jasenovac, the worst of about 40 camps in Croatia at the time, didn’t have a gas chamber. Inmates, including the elderly and children, were killed with guns, knives and hammers. Many were
Shimon Peres visited Jasenovac, Croatian WWII concentration camp on Sunday together with Croatian President Ivo Josipovic. About 85,000 of Jews, Serbs, Gypsies and anti-fascist Croats were tortured and executed in Jasenovac between 1941 and 1945. Unlike German concentration camps, Jasenovac had no gas chamber – victims were killed with guns, knives and hammers. Peres used Jasenovac as an example he would like to show to holocaust deniers in general and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in particular whose denials as Peres said “permit the legitimacy of continuity to kill”.
