Friday, February 19, 2010

Jasenovac

I didn't sleep well last night due to the book I'm reading, "Jasenovac and the Holocaust in Yugoslavia," by Barry Lituchy.

Jasenovac (pronounced yah-sen-o-vats). Jasenovac, translates to birch woods, and was a death camp in Yugoslavia during WWII. This was also the first death camp to use gas for mass extermination purposes, carbon monoxide and zyclon B. You don't hear much about Jasenvac. In my opinion it is mostly because it was headed by the Vatican Crime Organization with ties all the way to the top whose head at the time was Eugenio Pacelli, known as crime boss Pope Pius XII.

A number hit me in this book. 40,000 Gypsies were in Croatia in 1941. 800 survived. That's a 98% reduction in their population. I had to go out and smoke a cigarette after that one. It just boggles the mind. And headed by one of the organizations believed to be one of kindness and Love.

Of course, I started thinking about how the U.S. became the U.S. by eliminating approximately 98% of us Indians. Boggles the mind!

So I asked for a dream about Jasenovac. Although I didn't see anything like the death camp itself, there was so much crap going on in the dream, so much terror, so much confusion, so many names and numbers, so much discussion, that it was rather difficult to sleep.

Thus, I will again poke into the consciousness of my readers the word Jasenovac. Why isn't it discussed in much official history? Let's discuss it now and the implications of denial and minimalization that comes with such crimes and when criminals get away with them.

1 comment:

  1. How can I ask others to understand our history and what it means in our lives now if I don't try to understand theirs and what it means in their lives now? I think that is why I read about these things. It helps me to understand others and what they have gone through and their lives now as well as myself and those around me.

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