Zagreb Mayor Tomislav Tomasevic said on Thursday that a monument commemorating victims of the Holocaust, which was erected at Zagreb's Central Station in 2021 but has still not been unveiled, should be unveiled in the coming months.

“Talks are underway on the inscription on the monument, but I expect the memorial to be unveiled in the coming months,” the mayor told reporters.

He confirmed that the issue of the memorial, which was to have been unveiled last year, would be resolved and that it was realistic it would be unveiled by 20 April.

Opposition to naming the memorial “Monument to Holocaust Victims” was expressed earlier by the head of the Jewish Community Zagreb, Ognjen Kraus, who said that the monument should be named “Monument to Victims of the Ustasha Terror or the Independent State of Croatia (NDH)”.

A monument dedicated to victims of the Holocaust has no place in Zagreb but only where the Holocaust started, in Berlin, Kraus said, conveying the position of the Zagreb Jewish Community and the Coordinating Committee of Jewish Communities.

“During the NDH regime, racial laws were in force and they did not apply only to Jews but also to Roma, Serbs, antifascists, people of different sexual orientation and the mentally disabled, who were killed under those laws… We want the monument to be dedicated to the victims of the Ustasha terror and the NDH. The city authorities agree with that in principle,” Kraus said earlier today.