Serbia’s Ambassador to Austria, Nebojsa Rodic, and Austrian-Swiss Bishop Andrej sent a request to authorities in Innsbruck asking them for the text on the memorial plaque that will be put up at the house of Diana Budisavljevic to be changed.

The letter requested that the text Budisavljevic, who saved more than 10,000 children from the Croatian Ustasha camps, should clarify that those were “Serb” children, as that would correspond with the historical facts.

Serbia’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Ivica Dacic, told Serbia’s public broadcaster, RTS, that it is an obligation to clarify exactly what happened and that the victims were Serb children.

“Mostly when it comes to the crimes that took place in Croatia, there is always an attempt at some kind of relativization,” he said, adding that it is now “modern to not mention the nationality of the victims.”

Diana Budisavljevic was an Austrian humanitarian who led a major relief effort in Yugoslavia during World War II and saved more than 15,000 children, mostly Serbs, from Croatian Ustashe camps in the Independent State of Croatia – a Nazi-puppet state.