42 Archives - Contested Histories https://contestedhistories.org/tag/42/ Practical remedies to disputes over historical markers in public spaces Fri, 27 Feb 2026 09:08:13 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://contestedhistories.org/wp-content/uploads/cropped-CH_Symbol_Light_Bkg@10x-32x32.png 42 Archives - Contested Histories https://contestedhistories.org/tag/42/ 32 32 Stone Flower at Jasenovac Concentration Camp https://contestedhistories.org/resources/case-studies/stone-flower-at-jasenovac-concentration-camp?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=stone-flower-at-jasenovac-concentration-camp Mon, 23 Feb 2026 10:00:00 +0000 https://contestedhistories.org/resources// The ​​Kameni cvijet (Stone Flower) monument stands to honour the victims of Jasenovic, the largest concentration camp run by the Croatian Ustaša government during World War II. It took several decades to be built, primarily due to contestations between the Croatian far-right and Jewish, Serbian, and Croat anti-fascist organisations that have continued into the present. […]

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]]> The ​​Kameni cvijet (Stone Flower) monument stands to honour the victims of Jasenovic, the largest concentration camp run by the Croatian Ustaša government during World War II. It took several decades to be built, primarily due to contestations between the Croatian far-right and Jewish, Serbian, and Croat anti-fascist organisations that have continued into the present. These concern the nature of the camp, the number of victims who perished there, and whether those deaths can be properly considered genocide. The monument itself and the annual commemoration events held at the site have both become flashpoints for these conflicts, demonstrating the difficulty in honouring the memory of victims in sites whose histories remain unsettled.

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