Prepared by the Croatian Institute of History.

Note: Many books and over a thousand articles have been written on the Jasenovac camp (1941-45), about which an objective analysis must still be made. In more recent times, much progress has been achieved in the clarification of this issue.

1. Hell’s Torture Chamber by Djordje Milica, Zagreb, 1945.

Milica, a prominent supporter of the Yugoslav idea, was an inmate at the Jasenovac camp. In his book, he describes his imprisonment and provides interesting material for researchers. Yugoslav Communists banned the book in 1945, saying its descriptions "were (....) not a truthful portrayal of criminal Ustasha policies of extermination". In the court decision on the ban, it was claimed that Milica’s book was a "strong insult to all the victims of Jasenovac" and that it "hides the true essence of the Jasenovac camp." Today the book can be found in the library of the Croatian Institute for History and the Croatian University library.

2. Crimes in the Jasenovac Camp, State Commission investigation of crimes of the occupiers and their collaborators in Croatia, Zagreb, 1946.

This study was the first official and state report of the Commission on crimes of the Jasenovac camp. The book can be purchased in most bookstores in Zagreb.

3. The Jasenovac Camp by Nikola Nikolic, Zagreb, 1948.

Nikolic arrived at the camp in the spring of 1942 as a Communist and member of the National Liberation Movement. He served as the camp physician until his replacement at the end of February, 1943. The book can be found today in libraries and used book stores in Croatia.

4. Ustasha Camps by Mirko Percen, Globus, Zagreb, 1966. Second expanded printing 1990.

Percen was arrested in Zagreb in March, 1943, as secretary of the Federation of Communist Youth of Yugoslavia, and imprisoned in the Stara Gradiska camp. He was released a year later and joined the Partisan movement. This book is one of the first monographs on the emergence of camps in Croatia and can be found in used book stores and in larger libraries in Croatia.

5. Ustashi and the Independent State of Croatia 1941-1945, by Fikreta Jelic-Butic, Liber, Zagreb, 1977.

This book provides basic data on the administration and functioning of the Ustashi camps and can be found in used book stores.

6. The Jasenovac Concentration Camp,by Antun Miletic, Volumes One and Two, Belgrade, 1986. Volume Three, Belgrade, 1987. Second edition, 1993.

This book contains approximately 3,000 documents varying in significance, detail and length. Most of the data in Volumes One and Two reveals no new information. The majority of the documents had already been used and published prior to 1986. Most of the released documentation was comprised of reports from the State and County Commissions on the Jasenovac camp and lacked any critical evaluation. Miletic’s book served to disseminate the Great-Serbian ideology and creation of the so-called "Serbian krajina" in Croatia between 1991-1995. The book can be found in larger libraries and purchased in some used book stores.

7. Controversy in Yugoslavia’s History by Ljubo Boban, 2, Zagreb, 1989.

In the third part of this book, the author has published the majority of his articles and studies on the Jasenovac Camp. His work is polemic and contradicts the disseminators of the "Jasenovac myth". The book can be found in used book stores.

8. Yugoslav Population Losses in the Second World War, Vladimir Zerjavic, Yugoslav Society of Victims, Zagreb, 1989.

This book discusses, on the basis of demographic research and literature, Yugoslav population losses between 1941-1945, and rejects the official claims of 1,706,000. In a special chapter, the losses at Jasenovac and other camps are discussed. The Croatian language edition of the book can be found in used book stores. English and French editions have been available since 1997 and can be purchased at "Dom i Svijet" in Zagreb. The co-publisher is the Croatian Institute for History.

9. Obsessions and Megalomania on Jasenovac and Bleiburg, by Vladimir Zerjavic, Globus, Zagreb, 1992.

The author objects to the exaggerations of the number of victims in the Second World War, and especially in the Jasenovac camp. By demographic analysis, he attempts to objectively reach the probable number of victims from the Jasenovac camp, Bleiburg and other death marches. The book can be found in used book stores.

10. Yugoslavia- the Manipulation of Victims in the Second World War, by Vladimir Zerjavic, Croatian Information Center, Zagreb, 1993. (English, French and German texts are also provided as attachments in the above book)

This book provides an overview of his research up until 1993 on the Yugoslav population losses in the Second World War. It also provides data on the Jasenovac camp. The book is available in used book stores.

11. Antisemitism in the anti-fascist Holocaust: a collection of works, The Jewish Center, Zagreb, 1996.

In a number of individual attachments, the book discusses anti-Semitism during the war, the Jewish losses in Croatian during the Second World War, and especially the Jasenovac camp. The book can be obtained from the publisher and in book stores.

12. The Serbian Myth on Jasenovac: Hiding the Truth on Belgrade Concentration Camps, by Josip Pecaric, Dom i Svijet, Croatian Information Center, Croatian Institute of History, Zagreb, 1998.

In cooperation with researchers from the Croatian Institute of History, Pecaric provides a persuasive analysis of the works of Milan Bulajic, rebutting Bulajic’s claims on the number of victims of the Jasenovac camp - which have been sometimes as high as 700,000. The book is available in bookstores and from the publishers: Dom i Svijet, (Bosanska 15), Croatian Information Center (Opaticka 10).

13. The Creation of the Jasenovac Myth: problems of analysis of victims of the Second World War on the territory of Croatia, by Josip Jurcevic, Croatian Studies, Studia Croatica University, Zagreb, 1998.

The author offers an evaluation of earlier literature and the problems confronted in analyzing the losses during the Second World War and in the Jasenovac camp. On page 181, a special table provides a numerical overview of the manipulations which have taken place concerning the number killed in Jasenovac. The book is available in bookstores and from the publisher.

14. Jasenovac: victims of war according to data from the Yugoslav Institute of Statistics
(1964), Bosnian Institute, Zurich, Sarajevo, 1998.

This study - published for the first time after so many years - provides the name by name list of victims of the Jasenovac Camp, compiled by the Yugoslav government in 1964. It is the first and only official state list of victims of Jasenovac between 1941-1945. The list contains a total of 49,602 names of Jasenovac victims. Of these, 5,900 were Croats, 26,170 Serbs, 8,121 Jewish, 1,471 Roma, 789 Muslim, 174 Slovenian, 59 Hungarian, 35 Montenegrin, 7 Macedonian, others 84, and those not identified by nationality 6,792. From the Stara Gradiska camp: 9,586 victims, of which were: 646 Croats, 7,774 Serbs, 923 Jewish, 20 Slovenian, 3 Montenegrin, 1 Hungarian, not identified by nationality 58 and other 1. The total from both camps was registered as 59,188. The book can be purchased in book stores and from the Croatian News and Information Service, HINA.

15. The World War and Contemporary Chetniks: Historical-Political Continuity and Implications for Stability in the Balkans, by Dr. Philip J. Cohen, Ceres, Zagreb, 1997.

The basic intention of this book is to educate readers (in particular foreign readers) of the historical-political continuity of the Serbian Chetnik movement from the time of the Second World War until the present day, where Chetniks continue to play a significant role in contemporary society, in the military and political institutions of Serbia, Yugoslavia, the so-called Republika Srpska and in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The book is available (in Croatian and English) in most Croatian bookstores.

16. Serbia’s Secret War: Propaganda and the Deceit of History, by Dr. Philip Cohen, Texas A&M University Press, College Station, 1996. (Croatian edition: Tajni rat Srbije: Propaganda i manipuliranje povijescu, Ceres, Zagreb, 1997. Note: Sarajevo edition also in print)

The major part of this book concerns the systematic cover-up of Serbian anti-Semitism and the fate of Jews in other areas of former Yugoslavia, and not just within the Independent State of Croatia. On several occasions, Cohen touches upon the issue of Jasenovac, providing new data on the camp. The book is available in larger bookstores. Cohen’s book has garnered numerous positive reviews from Western critics and press.