Witness to Jasenovac's Hell

by Ilija Ivanovic and John Orville Greenwood

The true story of a boys experiences in the Jasenovac concentration camp in World War IIs Nazi puppet state of Croatia. Hidden history, unknown to Western audiences, the Jasenovac concentration camp,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0912011602
• ISBN13: 9780912011608
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Dallas Publishing
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

One among many

There are many horrific testimonies I've heard from people who passed through Jasenovac on their way to somewhere in Germany. All they bear great similarity to those I've found in the Ivanovic's book. May that time and that place never be forgotten - for the sake of those who perished there and whose the only guilt was having a 'wrong' name, being of 'false' ethnicity, belonging to 'bad' God.

Real holocaust story

This work presents a true account of Vatican's "forbidden holocaust" and Croatian genocide of Serbs, in Second World War...The most evil concentration camp of all nazi camps, Jasenovac in Croatia, was the place of torture and extermination of close to 1 milion Serbs, Jews and other non-catholics in Balkans. This is a powerful book that will make you want to know more and after reading it, your understanding of present situation and wars in Yugoslavia will be quite clear...Do not miss it.

Was about time we found out about these attrocities

In Romania we have been thought in school about Dachau, Auswitz, Sobibor etc but I don't think I ever heard about Jasenovac.My parents and grandparents told me about the Croatian atrocities against the Serbians in WWII but I had yet to find something on this theme in the west.It seems that the media demonization of the Serbs would've been somehow less complete if the story of Jasenovac was told.Great book,allows one to comprehend the fear the Serbs felt when they were forced to live again in an independent Croatia.A Croatia led by a holocaust denier who promised to rid the country of the Serbian "cancer".The Serbian ethic minority was cleansed indeed...with western support of course. If everyone in the West would've read the book perhaps the media's lies about the Yugoslav conflict would've been much easier to detect. At the Holocaust Museum in Washington there was no mention of Jasenovac and although there are numerous pictures depicting the carnage that befell the Serbs they are surprisingly missing from the museum.Wouldn't go well with the media and the government's script. It is surprising to find a book that describe a first hand account of that savagery committed by the Ustasha(Croatians) against the Serbs.I wonder if there will be a book about their atrocities committed nowadays against the Serbs?Maybe we'll have to wait another 50-60 years to read about them.Btw Croatia was declared the most ethnically clean country in the world.Reading this book one can understand why.

Great book

I would like to say one thing. This book is excelent. it is a first hand account from the eyes of child who lived through WW2. If one looks at other reviews we see people talking about how horrible this book is and how it is all lies. Now lets look at thsoe peoples names, all Croats. Jasenovac did happen and people who deny it are lying. Even the Croatian government said that 700,000 did die there. Come on now 700,000 Serbs in 4 years. That means 500 people per day. ohh i am so sorry 500 people per day is not a massacre. please stop, read the book, read history books, read academic records and you will see Jasenovac is true and this is a innocent first view on the camp.

Devastatingly truthful read.

From the moment I purchased this book I could not put it down until I was finished it (a few hours later). Ivanovic's personal account of his "1000 days" in hell is so devastatingly truthful, so shocking and is a perfect example of why his story "had to be told". So brutal are his accounts of events from 1942-1945, that I was nearly brought to tears on several occasions.The sheer brutality of the Croatian Nazi masters (Ustashi) was unparralled in Europe during WWII. In fact, even Germans found the Ustashi methods of torture and liquidation beyond explanation. The methods of torture and murder at Jasenovac even exceeded the horrors of Auschwitz. While the main target of the murderous ISC were Serbs, they also liquidated tens of thousands of Jews, Gypsies and Partisan Croatians.It is amazing that the realities of Jasenovac have remained largely a "hidden shame" for the Croat government of the ISC and even the current Neo-Fascist regime in Croatia presently.The single most impressive part about this book pertains to points of factual or statistical reference (by way of footnotes). Most of the sources the editors used were either from Croat WWII sources or Catholic Church sources. Often the debate about Jasenovac has revolved around the false belief that Serbian historians falsified numbers, facts and statistics. By using sources from Croatia and the Vatican this book has legitimized the horrors that the sons and daughters of Serbia faced in WWII.Additionally this book puts into context the current climate in fascist Croatia and Fundamentalist Bosnia. Only through survivor accounts (such as this) and greater investigation into Croatian attrocities at Jasenovac can the Balkan's move forward into the 21st century.I highly recommend this book to all who seek the truth about a place called hell, a place called Jasenovac.