First International Conference on Jadovno 1941
June 24, 2011, Banja Luka, R. Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Organisers:
Association “Jadovno 1941”, Banja Luka, R. Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Institute for Contemporary History, Belgrade, R. Serbia
Subject:
Call for Papers and Conference Programme
Dear Sir,
In the name of the Conference Executive Board we announce the First International Conference on
Jadovno 1941 and invite you to participate.
The Gospić group of Concentration camps (Gospić, Jadovno, Pag), was formed by a Croatian state authority – Police Administration. Serbs and Jews were brought to this first liquidation centre of the
Independent State of Croatia (1941 – 1945) from all over its territory to be physically destroyed.
These camps were not categorised as “labour” camps. Their only purpose was to destroy. This system of camps and execution sites, formed at the very beginning of Independent State of Croatia’s
(NDH) existence, before any armed resistance, was the beginning of planned, legalised and conducted genocide over the Serbian people and of the Holocaust.
Jadovno was the forerunner of the Jasenovac system of concentration and extermination camps, the largest in the area of Yugoslavia. The liquidation of camps, due to the re-occupation of the II Italian
Occupation Zone in late August 1941, involved the liquidation of inmates. Due to short time and interventions of Italian authorities, a number of inmates was not liquidated, but sent to other camps, mostly to Jasenovac, making its first inmates.
In the area of the Jadovno complex of Ustasha camps, just within 132 days it existed, 40,123 Serbs,
Jews and other “unsuitable elements” were murdered in various ways. The murdered victims were thrown into karst pits of Mount Velebit, into the sea of the Velebit Channel or covered with rocks at the island of Pag.
Seventy years after the crime, the execution sites of Jadovno are unexplored and bodies of victims still lie at the bottom of open or sealed karst pits. The roads to executions sites are overgrown and unmarked, and all memorial marks are destroyed.
Until now, there has never been a single conference or a roundtable on Jadovno.
The first scientific assembly dedicated to Jadovno 1941 expects to see presentations by participants from Israel, Italy, USA, Japan, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Аddress: Kralja Alfonsa XIII 49A, 78000 Banja Luka, Republika Srpska, Bosna i Hercegovina
Tel.: +387 51 333 588 | Faks: +387 51 333589 | email.: udruzenje@jadovno.com | www.Jadovno.com
JIB: 4403109160000 ŽR: 5520020002551162 Hypo Alpe Adria Bank AD

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We expect to see 12 presentations from the following areas:
1.
History – Less known fact-oriented documentation on the Jadovno complex of Ustasha camps from archives of the former Yugoslavia, and from Jewish and Italian archive heritage
2.
History – The place of Jadovno within broader events of the Second World War:
“Barbarisation of war” at the time of Operation Barbarossa, Axis camp system and within the Holocaust, genocide over Russians, Serbs, Romany and other crimes of Nazis and their allies
3.
Social psychology – the influence of damaged inter-ethnic and inter-religion relations on occurrence of crime with aspect to the consequences of the suffering on three generations of descendants
4.
Forensics – Practice in investigating crimes after seventy years with special aspect to the crime scene (seabed, open karst pits or those covered with concrete)
5.
Legislation – European and global regulations relating to execution sites and Second World
War memorial areas
6.
Cultural aspect – Memorialisation: the importance and ways to transfer events relating to crime into permanent memory. The crime of oblivion and memory manipulation
7.
A surviving child camp inmate – Personal memory and transferred experience
8.
Citizens’ Association “Jadovno 1941” – Reasons for forming the Association, experience so far, plans.
Please send the summary of your papers (up to 3600 characters) no later than February 15, 2011 in
English, Serbian, Croatian or Slovenian.
The final deadline for submitting integral papers is March 31, 2011. A paper can have up to 10 pages and should be submitted in electronic format, A4 (font size 12).
The accepted papers are going to be published in proceedings which are to be printed prior to the conference. The participants will be provided with simultaneous translation into Serbian and
English.
Once you have received this letter, please inform the Conference Executive Board on your participation: Telephone: +387 51 333 588; +387 65 511 130; Fax: +387 51 333 533
E-mail: conference2011@jadovno.com
Conference Executive Board:
Prof. Dr Momčilo Pavlović, Dr Milan Koljanin, Mr Jovan Ćulibrk, Mr Goran Latinović
Best Regards,
President of the Organisation Board
Dr Dušan Bastašić
Аddress: Kralja Alfonsa XIII 49A, 78000 Banja Luka, Republika Srpska, Bosna i Hercegovina
Tel.: +387 51 333 588 | Faks: +387 51 333589 | email.: udruzenje@jadovno.com | www.Jadovno.com
JIB: 4403109160000 ŽR: 5520020002551162 Hypo Alpe Adria Bank AD
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