U bivšoj jugoslavenskoj i sadašnjoj srpskoj historiografiji često su se, pa tako i danas, iznosile proizvoljne procjene o broju stradalih u tzv. jasenovačkoj skupini logora, u koju se ubraja i ...starogradiški logor. Najčešća procjena je da je u Jasenovcu stradalo 600.-700.000 žrtava, a u Staroj Gradiški oko 75.000 žrtava. Na temelju iskapanja Zemaljske komisije Hrvatske za utvrđivanje zloćina okupatora i njihovih pomagača (ZKRZ), iskaza pojedinih preživjelih zatočenika kao i popisa žrtava Drugog svjetskog rata, posebno onog iz 1964. godine koji je dugo vremena skrivan od šire javnosti, proizlazi da su takve procjene bile znanstveno neutemeljene i neobjektivne te da je stvaran broj žrtava logora Stara Gradiška jednako kao i logora u Jasenovcu višestruko manji.
This chapter reviews two of the most important persecution myths emerging from World War II. Revising the history of the Ustasa-run death camp at Jasenovac was a useful means of casting Serbs as the ...victims of a ‘Holocaust’ by Croats. On the Croatian side, the massacre at Bleiburg (Austria) by Communist forces (or Serb-led Communists, as the case might be) in 1945 was also likened to the Holocaust. In both cases, the other side was accused of committing genocide, using either the mask of Nazi or Communist domination to justify their atrocities. Of central importance was a ‘game of numbers’, or Ronnie Landau's ‘grotesque competition in suffering’. Serbs and Croats used the Jews as the litmus test for historical suffering, while also trading genocide stories with each other. By inflating their own numbers of dead, and reducing the numbers of enemy dead, they conducted their own comparative genocide debate within Yugoslavia. Both Jasenovac and Bleiburg became emblematic of national suffering and Fall during World War II.
Prikaz knjige Sibel Roller: "The Rooster: Discovering My Father's Memories from the Jasenovac Concentration Camp", Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2024.
