Professor Gideon Greif, Ph.D.

Biography

Professor Gideon Greif, Ph.D. Jewish Modern History University of Vienna (1997), Historian and Lecturer, Tel Aviv University and other academic centers in Israel (2012-Present). Head of International Expert Group GH7 –Stop Revisionism (2016 – present), Chief Historian and Researcher “Shem Olam Institute”, Israel (2011-Present), Senior Historian and Researcher Foundation for Holocaust Education Projects, Miami (2011-Present). Some of his publications: “Jasenovac. Auschwitz of the Balkans. Ustasha Empire of Cruelty". Tel Aviv 2018. Published by the 'Shem Olam" Institute for Holocaust Studies, the Ono Acadmeic College, and the Foundation for Holocaust Educational Projects" in Miami USA, published in Hebrew, English, Russian and Serbian by Knjiga komerc, “The Ustasha Final Solution before Nazi Final Solution”, Tel Aviv 2019. Published by the 'Shem Olam" Institute for Holocaust Studies, the Ono Acadmeic College, and the Foundation for Holocaust Educational Projects" in Miami USA, published in English, Serbian by Knjiga komerc, “Alojzije Stepinac Ustasha’s Vicar – Convert or Die -101 Reasons Why he can not be a Saint” Tel Aviv 2020. Published by the 'Shem Olam" Institute for Holocaust Studies, the Ono Acadmeic College, and the Foundation for Holocaust Educational Projects" in Miami USA, published in English, Serbian by Knjiga komerc, “Todesfabrik Auschwitz. Topografie und Alltag in einem Konzentrations- und Vernichtungslager”, Köln 2016 (mit Peter Siebers),“Aufstand in Auschwitz. Die Revolte des jüdischen ‘Sonderkommandos’ am 7. Oktober 1944”, Köln 2015. (mit Itamar Levin),“Between ‘Normality’ and the ‘Absurd’ – Spheres of Everyday Life in the Sonderkommando in Auschwitz-Birkenau,” in: John. K Roth and Jonathan Petropoulos (Eds.), Grey Zones: Ambiguity and Compromise in the Holocaust and its Aftermath (Claremont, 2005).

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF TWO EXTERMINATION CAMPS - JASENOVAC AND AUSCHWITZ

Abstract: “The Jasenovac camp was the lowest level to which mankind could fall,“ said the survivor Đorđe Miliša and he was certainly right. The cruelty that prevailed in the Jasenovac camp makes it to a hell on earth. Yechiel Dinurs said about another hell on earth, the Auschwitz camp complex and the concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, that it was „another planet“, where normal, human values were turned up side down. We could say the same about the Jasenovac camp even if its reality in some central points differs from Auschwitz’s reality. In order to give you some insight in the historical and moral meaning of the Jasenovac camp, I will today conduct a detailled comparison between Jasenovac and the much more known Auschwitz. By analyizing the diferences and the smiliarity between the two camps, we can draw a clearer picture of what the existence of Jasenovac means historically and what it means for us today. In order to be able to anylse the essence and the character of the Jasenovac camp and its historical and moral meaning, I will first have to refer to the historical devlopment of the camp. How was it established and which developments in the Ustasha State led to its existence? After that I will start with the thourough comparison with Auschwitz.