{"id":531,"date":"2025-03-12T06:15:38","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T06:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/konferencije.jusp-donjagradina.org\/?page_id=531"},"modified":"2026-03-24T19:49:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T19:49:54","slug":"milos-m-damjanovic","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/konferencije.jusp-donjagradina.org\/en\/milos-m-damjanovic\/","title":{"rendered":"Milo\u0161 M. Damjanovi\u0107, PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Milo\u0161 M. Damjanovi\u0107<\/strong> was born in Kosovska Mitrovica on March 2, 1985, where he completed his primary and secondary education. He earned his degree in History from the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Pri\u0161tina (temporarily seated in Kosovska Mitrovica) in 2011, defending his thesis \"Jews in Kosovo and Metohija 1804\u20131918.\" This work received an acquisition award from the Jewish Historical Museum in Belgrade at the annual scientific and literary competition organized by the Federation of Jewish Communities of Serbia. At the same university, he defended his doctoral dissertation titled \"Jews in Kosovo and Metohija 1918\u20131941.\"\n\nDr. Damjanovi\u0107 has participated in over twenty international scientific conferences across the country, the region, and abroad. To date, he has published more than forty authored and co-authored scientific and professional papers in national and international journals and conference proceedings in both Serbian and English. In 2023, the Archives of Vojvodina published his first monograph, Dr. Nehemiah Scheinfain (1886\u20131942): Biography of a Swiss in Yugoslavia. He has also written popular historical articles for the prestigious Belgrade daily Politika, focusing on unsung Serbian heroes of the Balkan Wars and World War I.\n\nHe has delivered over twenty public lectures and organized exhibitions on various historical topics in Kosovska Mitrovica and Gra\u010danica. On several occasions, he held thematic exhibitions and lectures as part of the European Days of Jewish Culture in Kosovo and Metohija. His latest exhibition, \"On Some Unrecorded Holocaust Victims from the Territory of the NDH,\" was organized in cooperation with the Public Institution Donja Gradina Memorial Area; in 2024, this exhibition toured several locations in the Republic of Srpska (Donja Gradina, Banja Luka, Doboj, etc.).\n\nHe is a laureate of six awards from international scientific and literary competitions on Jewish themes organized by the Federation of Jewish Communities of Serbia, including the first prize in 2021 for the expanded manuscript of his doctoral dissertation. He has also conducted several training sessions on cultural heritage in Kosovska Mitrovica and Prizren. His research fields are primarily focused on the history of Serbian and Yugoslav Jews in the 19th and 20th centuries, the Balkan Wars, World War I, local history of Kosovska Mitrovica and Kosovo and Metohija, and diverse topics concerning Yugoslav statehood, society, and culture. His latest book, Gavrilo Ki\u0107evi\u0107 (1903\u20131985): Biography of the Youngest Corporal in the Balkan Wars and Sketches from Family Life, was published in 2024 by the Archives of Vojvodina. He lives in Kosovska Mitrovica.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Abstract:<\/strong> Approximately 90,000 people of Jewish origin lived on the territory of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia until the outbreak of the April War in 1941. During the Holocaust (1941\u20131945), between 60,000 and 70,000 individuals were murdered, accounting for about two-thirds of their pre-war population. Within the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) during the same period, more than 30,000 individuals of Jewish roots were violently deprived of their lives, out of a total of 39,000 Jews found on the given territory upon the establishment of the Ustashe authorities\u2014representing nearly 77% of their total local population.\n\nAmong the victims of the Holocaust from the territory of the genocidal Independent State of Croatia was Josif Belinkis, an Ashkenazi Jew and physician born in Sarajevo. During the peaceful interwar period of the Yugoslav monarchy, he responsibly and professionally carried out his humane calling, conscientiously performing his medical duties in various parts of the country. In both military service and the civilian sector, he served as a physician in several Yugoslav cities, such as Vranje, Skopje, Radovi\u0161te, Pljevlja, and his native Sarajevo. It was in Sarajevo that he witnessed the formation of the Nazi-aligned Croatian reign of terror and met his bloodthirsty executioners, who deprived him of his life in the Jasenovac death camp\u2014one of the most monstrous locations of mass murder on the map of occupied Europe.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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