Agenda

Conference Program – April 22, 2026

9:45-10:00 Participant Registration

10:00 Conference Opening

10:15 Session I: Moderator Dejan Motl

10:15-10:25 Dr. Drago Njegovan (Museum and Scientific Advisor, Novi Sad)

Genocide of my family by the Croatian Ustashe in the village of Lukavice on St. Elijah's Day, 1941

10:25-10:35 Dr. Milan Koljanin (“Staro Sajmište” Memorial Center)

Liberation of inmates from the Jasenovac and Loborgrad camps in March 1942

10:45-10:55 MA Janko Vračar (Museum of the Republic of Srpska, Banja Luka)

Ustashe damnatio memoriae in Banja Luka as a prelude to the genocide against Serbs

10:45-10:55 Vladimir Bursać, Independent Researcher (Zrenjanin)

Bosanska Krajina in light of the testimonies of Serbian refugees 1941–1942

10:55-11:05 Simo Radić (Museum of Herzegovina, Trebinje)

Indirect victims of Ustashe terror in the Popovo Polje area

11:05-11:15 Mirko Cvijanović (Museum in Doboj)

Executions from September 16 to 25, 1941

11:15-11:25 Viktor Nuždić (Republican Center for Research on War, War Crimes and Search for Missing Persons, Banja Luka)

Rehabilitating the Past: Ustashe symbolism and historical revisionism in public space

11:25-11:40 Break

11:40 Session II: Moderator Mirko Dimić

11:40-11:50 Dr. Ana Ćirić Pavlović (ELTE University Budapest)

Ustashe looting during World War II: A case study of Jewish shops in Sarajevo

11:50-12:00 Dr. Miloš Damjanović, MA Jelena M. Damjanović, Predrag S. Premović

Doctor Josif Belinkis (1900–1942), biography of a Holocaust victim

12:00-12:10 Borislav Marić, Professor (Prnjavor)

Porajmos

12:10-12:20 Dejan Motl, Senior Curator (Public Institution “Donja Gradina Memorial Area”)

Resistance in Camp III Brickworks (Ciglana)

12:20-12:45 Break

12:45-12:55 Session III: Moderator Tanja Tuleković

12:55-13:05 Asja Drača Muntean (“Staro Sajmište” Memorial Center)

Art as Resistance: Testimony of Nada Novaković from the Zemun Transit Camp

13:05-13:15 MA Marko Janković (Memorial Center of the Republic of Srpska)

Oral history as a source for reconstructing the numbers and lifestyle of Serbian families on Kozara on the eve of World War II

13:15-13:25 Mirko Dimić, Senior Curator (Public Institution “Donja Gradina Memorial Area”)

The Memory of Gojko Kotur

13:25-13:35 Sergej Vukčević (City Association of Former Camp Inmates of WWII and Their Descendants)

Mile Ristić and the breakout from Jasenovac: A biographical study

13:35-13:45 Sanja Crnobrnja (National Museum of Toplica)

The 1942 Voćin crime – a case study as a platform for applying new crime research methods

13:45-13:55 Tanja Tuleković, Museum Advisor (Public Institution “Donja Gradina Memorial Area”)

Donja Gradina, The Gravediggers: Witnesses to the Ustashe crime of genocide