Ljubica Štefan

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Ljubica Štefan
Born
Prilep, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (modern-day North Macedonia)
Died
Zagreb, Croatia
NationalityYugoslav, Croatian
Occupationhistorian
Righteous
Among the Nations
By country

Ljubica Štefan (1921–2002) was a Croatian historian. She was awarded honorific title Righteous Among the Nations.[1]

Biography

Born in Croatian family in

Slavic studies at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in 1939 in Zagreb, but finished in 1949 in Belgrade. She was a professor of slavistics in Belgrade, Kosovo and Vojvodina.[citation needed
]

During the

Second World War she lived in Karlovac by her uncle Lujo Štefan, with whom she run actions of liberating and saving Jews of Nazi-puppet NDH prosecutions. Consequently, she was awarded honorific title Righteous Among the Nations.[1] Her and her uncle's name were engraved in Yad Vashem
in 1992 together with the word Croatia for the first time in the history.

Work

Štefan discovered and published documents about collaboration between

Yugoslav Communist Regime she published her works anonymously or under pseudonyms (Edo Bojović), because she was blacklisted by Yugoslav authorities.[citation needed] She published her works in Hrvatsko slovo, Vjesnik
, Hrvatski obzor and many others.

She researched contemporary history, especially relations between

Southeastern Europe. The history award of Croatian Cultural Fond is named after her.[2]

According to sociologist Jovan Byford, Štefan belonged to a group of authors whose works supported the Croatian side against the Serbian side in a "war of words" which became propaganda war after the involvement of various state ministries. These groups of authors depicted Serbs as a genuine "genocidal nation" whose collaborators during WWII, with the blessing of the Serbian Orthodox Church, cleansed Serbia from Jews and committed much worse crimes than the Ustaše.[3]

According to John K. Roth, in her work From Fairy Tale to Holocaust, Štefan falsely alleges that Serbia ran an independent state during the Second World War (the country was under German military occupation).[4] Štefan advocated the unproven theory[5] that the Jasenovac concentration camp was used by Josip Broz Tito and the Yugoslav communist regime to imprison political prisoners after World War II.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ a b "Righteous Among the Nations Honored by Yad Vashem by 1 January 2018" yadvashem.org. Accessdate 23-11-2018.
  2. ^ Ljubica Štefan Award Croatian Cultural Fond – hkz.hr. Accessdate 23-11-2018.
  3. ^ (Byford 2011, p. 147): " S hrvatske strane, najaktivniji u ovom svojevrsnom ratu rečima bili su bili autori poput Tomislava Vukovića, Ljubice Štefan, Josipa Pečarića, Anta Kneževića i američkog publiciste Filipa Koena (Philip Cohen). U svojim delima oni su nastojali da predstave Srbe kao stvarni „genocidni narod“, ..."
  4. ISBN 978-0-81012-639-8
    .
  5. ^ Milekic, Sven (24 January 2017). "Croatia Ex-President Shown Downplaying WWII Crimes". Balkan Insight. BIRN.

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External links
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