I read some shocking news from my fellow babelblogger. It made me realise how little I know about the history of the Balkans. Does anybody know more about this? Were there any explanations from the Vatican, apologies? Can't really spend much time researching that at the moment, but I'd certainly want to go back to the story.
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My grandfather was actually a scholar of (among many many other things) the Holocaust in the Balkans and the religious genocide of Serbs. I know nothing about the topic myself but I'll ask around and see if anything he wrote on the topic is still around. The YIVO archive would have info, as well as the Holocaust museum in D.C. I've always known that Serbs were the second largest group killed but I never looked into it too much. There was also a thriving Jewish community in the former Yugoslavia, entirely Ladino speaking, which was destroyed to the point where few remember it ever existed. But that was a sideshow compared to what happened to the Serbs. So no, it's nothing new. People in that part of the world are aware of it but their attention is taken by more recent horrors.
Ar pavyko tau ką nors daugiau apie tai sužinoti? Įdomu būtų... tikra juoda dėmė. Tuose kraštuose mėgstama priminti, kad panašios koncentracijos stovyklos buvo ir pas serbus, bet tai vargiai ką nors pateisina.