BOOK "PUCARI 1941-1945" BY MIRKO DIMIĆ PROMOTED

KOZARSKA DUBICA, APRIL 3 /SRNA/ - Mirko Dimić's book "Pucari 1941-1945" about the suffering of Serbs in the Second World War, primarily in the village of Pucari, was promoted in the National Library in Kozarska Dubica tonight.

"The book is designed in four parts, and contains a historical and general part, memories of survivors, a list of 413 victims that I managed to list, attachments, photos and documents that complete the story and image of Pucari during the Second World War," Dimić said.

Director of the Donja Gradina Memorial Area, Tanja Tuleković, said that this promotion was prepared as part of activities to mark the 80th anniversary of the breakthrough of the last group of inmates from the Jasenovac concentration camp.

"The book is very significant, because it deals with a micro-unit within the historical framework, which the author managed to support with numerous documents, photographs and oral testimonies that have not been published to this day," Tuleković said.

She added that the village of Pucari has now been scientifically processed for the first time and has therefore been put on the maps of the places of suffering of the Serbian Orthodox population.

"It is very important that we deal with those microunits in order to extract as much data as possible about the suffering of the Serbian population in Potkozarje, because the Serbian Orthodox people really suffered the most, and in this way we will contribute to the synthesis of the entire historical research of the Jasenovac concentration camp," Tuleković said.

Director of the National Library in Kozarska Dubica, Danijela Mandić, emphasized the very good and long-term cooperation with the Donja Gradina Memorial Area, through joint activities, book promotions, history classes, lectures and workshops.

"From Mirko Dimić's book, our visitors learned how the inhabitants of Pucari lived in the whirlwind of the Second World War," Mandić said.

Mirko Dimić is the author of the book "Sreflije 1941-1945" and the exhibition "Kozarska Dubica, the site of the crime of genocide against Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia 1941-1945" and "Jasenova martyrs".

Dimić is a historian and senior curator at the Donja Gradina Memorial Area Public Institution.