SEMINAR ON JASENOVAC CONCLUDES
A three day-long seminar for seminary professors regarding the
Jasenovac death camp, which was organized by the Committee for Jasenovac of
the Holy Assembly of Bishops, concluded in the monastery of Mostanica on October
21.
This seminar, with participants representing all seven of the
seminaries of our Church, was held in Banja Luka, Drakulic and the Jasenovac
and Donja Gradina concentration camp complex.
Lectures were held by professors Jovan Mirkovic (Historical facts
and historiographical problems in connection with Jasenovac), Predrag Lazarevic
(Jasenovac in literature and national consciousness) and Father Jovan Culibrk
(General historical framework for genocide during World War II - The Serbian
Orthodox Church and Jasenovac).
This seminar provided participants with a particularly important
opportunity to hear the testimony of surviving Jasenovac inmates Vasilije Karan,
Stojka Trivic-Marceta and Gojko Knezevic, who gave his testimony at the very
scene of the crime in the Jasenovac concentration camp. During the course of
the seminar the CD “Jasenovac - Industry of Death” prepared by the Committee
for Jasenovac was presented, as well as the film “The Grey Zone”.
Seminar participants pilgrimaged to the killing fields where
so many Serbs perished in Drakulic near Banja Luka, Draksenic and the Jasenovac
and Donja Gradina concentration camp complex.
The final session was held in the monastery of Mostanica after
Holy Liturgy served by the participants in the seminar with His Grace Bishop
Sava of Slavonia in the church of the monastery of Jasenovac, which is also
the seat of the Bishop of Slavonia.
All participants agreed that the spiritual value of this seminar
and its educational importance are of tremendous import for their further pedagogical
work with seminarians, the future spiritual pastors of the Serbian people.
Darko Trivic
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