Igor Vukić (born 26 January 1966) is a Croatian journalist and

historical negationist Historical negationism, also called denialism, is falsification or distortion of the historical record. It should not be conflated with ''historical revisionism'', a broader term that extends to newly evidenced, fairly reasoned academic reinterp ...

. He is an author of books on the Jasenovac concentration camp, including ''Radni logor Jasenovac'' (''Jasenovac Labour Camp''), which advances his thesis that Jasenovac was simply a labour camp, rather than an extermination camp as accepted by all serious scholars. He does not have a degree in history.

Biography

Igor Vukić was born in 1966 in

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to a family of

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origin from Gradina Donje. He attended primary school in Pakracka Poljana, secondary school in Kutina, and graduated from the Faculty of

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in Zagreb in 1992. Most of his family were in the Jasenovac concentration camp during the

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. He works as an independent journalist and researcher and has authored two books on Jasenovac. ''Radni logor Jasenovac'', was published in 2018, and the material is mainly based on the research of the funds of the Croatian State Archives in Zagreb. It claims that Jasenovac was a labour camp where no mass murder took place by distorting and selectively cherry-picking data.

Career

Vukić worked as a journalist in newspapers: '' Vjesnik'' (1990–1991), '' Novi list'' (1994–2001), '' Jutarnji list'' (2001–2005), ''Poslovni dnevnik'' (2005–2009) and ''

Privredni vjesnik ''Privredni vjesnik'' ( en, The Business Messenger) is the oldest weekly business and financial newspaper in Croatia. It was founded in 1953 by Privredna komora Zagreb Zagreb ( , , , ) is the capital and largest city of Croatia. It is in th ...

'' (2009–2016). He worked at Kutina Television (1992–1993). Currently, he writes a column for ''Hrvatski tjednik'', a weekly magazine from

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. On 30 May 2018, Vukić was invited as a guest on the "Good afternoon, Croatia" programme on the state owned broadcaster HRT where he stated among other things, that the extermination camp Jasenovac had served as a labour camp or a prison for active opponents of the state and for Jews excluded from deportation to Germany, and described Ustasha leader

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as the most responsible person for rescuing camp inmates. The public institution running the Jasenovac memorial complex (JUSP) condemned Vukić's views and criticized the station for giving him a platform. Vukić's appearance was also condemned by members of the Jewish community in Croatia who were "insulted, shocked, and disturbed" by the ideas and views expressed in the program. Vukić reportedly received a grant of 50000 HRK in 2018 for his project that denies the Ustashe crimes in the Jasenovac extermination camp. The project is entitled "Društvo za istraživanje trostrukog logora Jasenovac" (Society for research of the triple camp of Jasenovac), and Vukić is its secretary, with

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being its president.

References

External links

Croatia's media and the problem with historical revisionism

Branimir Janković – Javna povijest – Javni status znanja o Jasenovcu ili kako je javna povijest porazila akademsku historiografiju
{{DEFAULTSORT:Vukic, Igor Living people 1966 births Journalists from Zagreb University of Zagreb alumni Croatian Holocaust deniers Deniers of the genocide of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia