“Small nations and states will seek their place under the sun, while the great powers will demand that they renounce their moral wealth—above all, their struggle for justice and truth. All of this ...

Down through the rocky hills of Croatia and Bosnia last week swept a formidable Axis army. Its aim: destruction of the Partisan armies and liquidation of the free democratic state comprising roughly ...

The small town of Odžak is nestled between the Bosna and Sava rivers, in the north of present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina. To the north and east, a handful of villages spread over the plains, while to ...

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Some 700 engraved stones at the Partisan Memorial Cemetery in the Bosnian town of Mostar, one of the largest anti-fascist monuments in the Balkans, have been destroyed by vandals. This post is also ...

Stepping out of my comfort zone, I volunteered to review Gaj Trifkovic’s military study of the course of World War II in the former Yugoslavia. Perhaps I should not have been surprised to encounter a ...

Rare photographs show the construction and unveiling of some of the famous monuments built during Yugoslavia's socialist era. The unearthly memorials known as "Spomeniks" (the Serbo-Croatian word for ...

The Partisan Haggadah from the 1940s is rooted in the bloody struggle by communist partisans against the Axis powers occupying Yugoslavia. (JTA) — Eliezer Papo, a professor of Sephardi and Hebrew ...

A commander of the Yugoslav partisans, who arrived here today, reveals that the Germans have slaughtered the entire Jewish population of the large city of Belgrade, the Yugoslav capital. Before the ...

2010: Monument at Petrova Gorao to the uprising of the people of Kordun and Banija. Wikicommons/ Sandir Bordas. All rights reserved. Imagine, not knowing anything ...