Ćamil Sijarić, “Liberated Jasenovac” – shared trauma of the survivors Cover Image

ĆAMIL SIJARIĆ, „OSLOBOĐENI JASENOVAC”- PODIJELJENA TRAUMA ŽRTVE
Ćamil Sijarić, “Liberated Jasenovac” – shared trauma of the survivors

Author(s): Dragana Kujović
Subject(s): Oral history, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Fascism, Nazism and WW II
Published by: Историјски институт Црне Горe

Summary/Abstract: Ćamil Sijarić, a Montenegrin writer and participant in People’s Liberation War, TANJUG reporter, and journalist, was one of the first to enter Jasenovac concentration camp in April 1945, immediately after its liberation In his writings Oslobođeni Jasenovac, between fiction and journalistic style, Sijarić testified a few decades later about the horrors andmost terrible suffering of camp prisoners and shares with readers the traumatic memory of suffering, pain and misfortune of the persecuted. Most ofthem were not combatants of the national liberation movement. In his notes on the Jasenovac concentration camp, Sijarić follows the facts about the severe violence that took place there and inserts images of victims into the entire Yugoslav memories of war horrors, which surpass, as much as symbols,the particularity of historical memories

  • Issue Year: 2022
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 215-229
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Slavic (Other)