Društvena percepcija „Dnevnika Ane Frank“ u jugoslovenskom socijalizmu
The Social Perception of Anne Frank's Diary in Yugoslav communism

Summary/Abstract: The Diary of Anne Frank has been translated into more than 70 languages and sold in more than 30 000 000 copies so far which means that it has become one of the most influential books ever. Yugoslavia was one of the first communist states in which the Diary was published, and, at the same time, one of just a few countries in the world that produced the movie based on the book. At the beginning of the 1960̓s Ana Frank has already become a well-known symbol of civil victimhood and suffering during the war and the Holocaust. Over the decades, The newspapers in Yugoslavia were publishing articles about different aspects of the Anne Frank phenomenon regularly, they were interested in different topics such as the post-war activity of Anna's father Otto Frank and his foundation, the trials against the ex-Nazi officer responsible for the arrest and deportation of Frank family, controversies about the authenticity of the Diary, but also the press occasionally took an effort to find Yugoslav citizens who believed to know personally while in concentration camp, but also those whose life story was in some parts similar to the fate of Anne Frank. Despite all the popularity that Anna Frank̕ s Diary has gained, the Yugoslavian culture of remembrance has never succeeded to incorporate some similar domestic examples of victimhood into the collective historical consciousness. The main reason for this was the nature of Yugoslav politics of remembrance that was mostly dedicated to the cult of struggle, resistance, and heroism, while the civil victims were present in commemorative forms only in the form and amount in which the ideology of Revolution and People's Liberation Struggle demanded it.

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