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Croatian right-wing singer Marko Perković and fans perform pro-Nazi salute at massive concert

One of his most popular songs, played in the concert, starts with the dreaded “For the homeland — Ready!” salute, used by Croatia’s Nazi-era puppet Ustasha regime that ran concentration camps at the time.

Croatian Olympic Committee adopts IHRA working definition

The adoption of the IHRA Working Definitions is part of its Future of Remembrance initiative, which aims to fight against attitudes of intolerance, discrimination, and exclusion through and in sport. 

Croatia returns looted art to the descendant of a Holocaust victim

Three Croatian museums returned pieces to Andy Reichsman, who continued his late aunt's decades-long struggle to reclaim works stolen by the Nazi-allied regime.

Ognjen Kraus: “Holocaust denial is going unpunished in the country and Jewish graves are being obliterated”

President of the Coordinating Committee of Jewish Communities in Croatia Ognjen Kraus said that Holocaust denial is going unpunished in the country and Jewish graves are being obliterated at a Yom Hashoah ceremony at Zagreb’s Mirogoj cemetery. 

Zagreb may soon rename streets dedicated to Nazi-backed Ustasha regime

Local authorities in Zagreb are proposing to rename four streets currently named after high-ranking officials linked to the Nazi-backed Ustasha regime in another move away from the historical revisionism prominent in the 1990s.

Croatia adopts the IHRA working definition of antisemitism

The Croatian government adopted the IHRA working definition of antisemitism. Croatia will preside IHRA in 2023 and 2024, so the government has established a National Coordination Body for the presidency over IHRA.

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