INTERNATIONAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE MEÐUNARODNA INTERDISCIPLINARNA KONFERENCIJA THE STATE OF HOLOCAUST STUDIES IN SOUTH EASTERN : STANJE ISTRA@IVANJA HOLOKAUSTA U JUGOISTO^NOJ EVROPI: PROBLEMS, OBSTACLES AND PERSPECTIVES PROBLEMI, PREPREKE I PERSPEKTIVE October, 27th-29th. 2006 27.-29. oktobar/listopad 2006. , Hotel Saray SARAJEVO, Hotel Saray

FRIDAY 27 OCTOBER 2006 SATURDAY 28 OCTOBER 2006 MIRA JOVANOVIÆ IX. Panel University of Zurich Historiography and Public Memory, Opening Addresses 09:00-10:00h III. Panel Holocaust Education in : An Analysis of History Comparative, Romania 15:00-17:00h Historiography and Public Memory in 9:00-11:00h Schoolbooks and Historiography JAKOB FINCI, President of the Jewish Community of Chair: N.N. Chair: PAUL MILLER MILAN BALABAN International University of Sarajevo and University of Banja Luka JAKOV SOBOVITZ MICHAEL SCHROEN, Director of the Goethe-Institute McDaniel College (Maryland, USA) LUKA TATOMIR Academic director of the Carmel College in Carmel City, Israel Bosnia and Herzegovina University of Zagreb Transylvanian Jewry: A Historiographic Review JOVAN T. BYFORD Textbooks in the Republic of Srpska, the Federation of Bosnia GRETA FERUŠIÆ, Professor and Auschwitz survivor Open University, Milton Keynes, UK and Herzegovina, Serbia, and Croatia SILVIA SUTEU Holocaust in History and Public Memory: Harvard University The Case of Contemporary Serbia DUŠAN PAVLOVIÆ Anti-Holocaust Denial Legislation: I. Keynote Lecture 10:00-11:00h Association Jasenovac-Donja Gradina, Banja Luka The Romanian Case in Comparative Perspective EMIL KERENJI Holocaust Education in the Serbian Orthodox Church IVO GOLDSTEIN University of Michigan PETRU WEBER Special Evening Session University of Zagreb The State of Holocaust Research in Serbia Freie Universität Berlin Prerequisite Conditions for the Organization and Implementation Film presentation at the Bosniak Institute 20:00h The Public Memory of Holocaust in the Post-War Romania of the Holocaust in South Eastern Europe DRAGAN CVETKOVIÆ Museum of genocide victims, Belgrade NORMAN H. GERSHAM STEFAN IONESCU Coffee break 11:00-11:30h Holocaust in Yugoslavia: An Attempt of Quantification Photographer Clark University (Methodology, Questions, Examples, Results) Besa – Muslims who saved Jews During World War II Confronting the Legacy of the Holocaust: Remembrance, Research, Education and JOVAN ÆULIBRK Public Debates in Post-Communist Romania II. Keynote Lecture 11:30-12:30h St. Peter's Theological College, Cetinje, “Historiography of the Holocaust in the Former Yugoslavia and it's SUNDAY 29 OCTOBER 2006 WALTER MANOSCHEK implications on the region's general knowledge of the Holocaust” Address 9:00-9:30h X. Panel University of Vienna The Holocaust and its Aftermath in The Destruction of Yugoslavian Jewry Coffee break 11:00-11:30h DENIS DŽIDIÆ Multi-Ethnic Regions: Bosnia and 17:00-18:30h University of Sarajevo and Jewish Community Sarajevo Lunch break 12:30-14:00h Chair: EMILY GREBLE BALIÆ IV. Panel Stanford University and Belfer Center, Harvard University Preservation and Knowledge Reproduction 11:30-13:00h VII. Panel Historiography and Public ZORAN MANDELBAUM I. Panel Chair: HUSNIJA KAMBEROVIÆ Memory, Comparative 9:30-11:30h Jewish Community Mostar Regional Case Studies 14:00-16:00h Director, Institute for History, Sarajevo The Holocaust and its Aftermath in Mostar Chair: WALTER MANOSCHEK on Jews of Mostar and Hercegovina Chair: PAUL MILLER MILENA GAŠIÆ and SEJDALIJA GUŠIÆ University of Vienna International University of Sarajevo and Historical Archives of Sarajevo FEDŽAD FORTO McDaniel College (Maryland, USA) RALUCA MOLDOVAN Holocaust Research and the Archives University of Sarajevo Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj Napoca, Romania Effects of the Holocaust in Sarajevo: EMILY GREBLE BALIÆ The Representation of the Holocaust in Museums and NENAD ANTONIJEVIÆ The Situation of Survivors After 1945 Stanford University and Belfer Center, Harvard University Museum of Genocide Victims, Belgrade Memorials: A Comparison Between Western Europe, the USA Complicating Croatia's Holocaust Narrative: A Case Study of The role of the Museum of Genocide Victims in disseminating and East-Central Europe Sarajevo DANIEL PEREZ knowledge of genocide and the Holocaust in the Republic of Stanford University Serbia BRIGITTE MIHOK CARL BETHKE Centre for Researches on Antisemitism, Albanian Historiography of Kosovo and the Holocaust Freie Universität Berlin MILICA MIHAILOVIÆ Technische Universität Berlin Genocide and Common Language: Jewish Historical Museum, Belgrade Public Memories in Hungary: Phases of the Holocaust The Osijek Jews and Volksdeutsche in the Holocaust The Role of the Belgrade Jewish Historical Museum in the Remembrance Research and Presentation of the Holocaust in the Former LJILJANA RADONIÆ STEVEN F. SAGE Yugoslavia Jewish Claims Conference Research Unit University of Vienna Shoa Memorial and 'Vergangenheitspolitik' in Croatia: USHMM, Washington, D.C. Lunch break 13:00-14:30h Bulgaria's Experience of the Holocaust: Dealing with Jasenovac Confronting the Myth of 'Rescue' JOVAN MIRKOVIÆ APOSTOL KOTANI V. Panel Museum of Genocide Victims, Belgrade The Albanian Israeli Friendship Association (AIFA) Lessons and Legacies: Jasenovac: History and Historiography (Some Open Questions Why the world turned to at the start of the Holocaust The in the 1990s 14:30-16:30h on Jasenovac and its Historiography)

Coffee break 16:00-16:30h Chair :NN Coffee break 11:30-12:00h

PETRIT ZORBA II. Panel The Albanian Israeli Friendship Association (AIFA) VIII. Panel Holocaust Denial, Misuse, and Relativization 16:30-18:00h An Overview of Albanian-Israeli Relations Oral history 12:00-13:30h

Chair/Introduction: PAUL MILLER KEMAL KURSPAHIÆ Chair: GABY BABIÆ International University of Sarajevo and Writer, Author of Prime Time Crime: Goethe-Institute Sarajevo McDaniel College (Maryland, USA) Balkan Media in War and Peace (USIP Press, 2003) NATALIJA BAŠIÆ Balkans Perspective: Respecting the Victims of Persecution Freie Universität Berlin MICHAEL SHAFIR Nobody Came Back: The Second World War, Persecution of Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania HARRY RHEA Jews and Holocaust in Family Histories of Serbia and Croatia History, Memory and the Gulag-Holocaust Competition in La Salle University Post-Communist Europe Ethnic Cleansing in the Balkans: Restorative Justice and JANJA BEC-NEUMANN Reconciliation Lessons from the Holocaust University of Sarajevo DIANA DUMITRU Public and Family Stories about KZ Semlin State Pedagogical University “Ion Creanga” Coffee break 16:30-17:00h Cjisinau, Moldova JOANNE RUDOF The Use and Abuse of the Holocaust: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Historiography and Politics in Moldova VI. Panel Yale University Holocaust Education in the Region 17:00-18:30h Video Documentation of Holocaust Survivors in HANNAH STARMAN the Former Yugoslavia Institute of Ethnic Studies, Ljubljana Chair: HUSNIJA KAMBEROVIÆ Jews in Slovenia: Holocaust and Eradication of Memory Director, Institute for History, Sarajevo Lunch break 13:30-15:00h

Goethe-Institut Sarajevo R.S.V.P! Tel: 00387.33.570 000 Please register by 24 October 2006! Fax: 00387.33.570.030 The conference language is English, Molimo Vas prijavite ucešce najkasnije E-Mail: [email protected] with simultaneous translation do 24. oktobra 2006.! www.goethe.de/sarajevo into Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian

Conference Management: Gaby Babiæ Special thanks to the following sponsors: Conference Concept: Gaby Babiæ, Emily G. Baliæ and Paul B. Miller Edited by: Emily G. Baliæ, Aleksandar Grgiæ Translation: Damir Arsenijeviæ Design: Branko Dursum - [email protected] Special Thanks: Jana Binder, Karel Fracapane, Susanne Heim, Kimberly Murphy, "This project was funded, in part, through this Grant Agreement. Husnija Kamberoviæ, Elma Softiæ-Kaunitz, Amina Rizanbegoviæ-D uviæ, Claude Kieffer The opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed ` herein are those of the Author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of the Department of State".