As part of a series of events dedicated to the issue of studying the Holocaust in neighboring countries, ShoahLab invites you to attend the lecture entitled “Croatia and the Holocaust” on September 27, 2022 at 5 p.m.

In the first part of the lecture, historian Lovro Kralj will speak about the issue of studying the Holocaust in Croatia, and will provide a brief historiographic overview of the development of research on fascism, the Holocaust and other genocides in Croatia. The lecture will also identify neglected topics and trends in modern historiography that have not been applied to the topic of the Holocaust in the region. In the second part of the lecture, historian Sanja Simper will present her book “Jews in Rijeka and Liburnian Istria in the Light of Fascist Anti-Semitism (1938-1943)”. The book is the result of thorough archival research and talks about the position and suffering of Jews from Rijeka and Kvarner under Italian fascist rule.

The lecture will be held online, but those interested will be able to follow it from the Institute of Philosophy and Social Theory.

Lovro Kralj is a doctoral student at the Central European University (CEU) and a lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Rijeka. Among his interests are issues of fascism, anti-Semitism and the Holocaust, with a special focus on Central and Southeastern Europe.

Sanja Simper teaches history at the high school “Eugen Kumičić” in Opatija. Since 2002, thanks to the support of various international institutions, she organizes and leads various curricular and extracurricular activities as part of the interdisciplinary program “Education about human rights and the Holocaust”.