Serbian Genocide Museum denies claims in Jerusalem Post article

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Serbia’s Museum of Genocide Victims said on Wednesday that the Jerusalem Post had removed an article about the WW 2 Jasenovac death camp which which it said was “a pseudo-scientific and revisionist text by journalist David Goldman”.

Museum acting Director Dejan Ristic wrote an opinion piece which the Jerusalem Post published, a statement said. The opinion piece said that Goldman, “the author of this revisionist article tries to deny tragic historical facts” and went on to explain the research done in the former Yugoslavia to identify the victims of the WW2 Nazi puppet Croatian regime and its Ustashi para-military.

Earlier, the Serbian Foreign Ministry condemned Goldman’s claims in the article titled This disgraceful mocking of the Holocaust needs to stop now. In it, Goldman, an Australian journalist, claimed that the Yugoslav authorities had inflated the numbers of Holocaust victims “in a cynical attempt to extort money out of West Germany”. According to Goldman, only up to 4,500 people were killed in the Jasenovac death camp complex. He also claimed that in the Balkans the Jews had been removed from the Holocaust and replaced with Serbs. The Belgrade-based Museum said that Jews accounted for about 15 percent of the victims of the Ustashi death camp.

The Foreign Ministry called Goldman’s claims a shameless attempt to revise history and demean the most monstruous crime in the region.

Goldman’s opinion piece was removed from the Jerusalem post but was available here on Wednesday.