The article discusses the last several years of socialist Yugoslavia, the period from 1988 to 1991, as a tipping period when the formation of one new social-political context started that would also cause the breakout of the country, and within which the Holocaust became liable to some new ways of explanation. In order to present different standpoints that existed in multinational Yugoslav society, the article is based on two key issues: the increase of anti-Semitism and attempts to revitalise the Holocaust among the Croatian political elite, while the second one was the founding and activity of Društvo srpsko-jevrejskog prijateljstva (The Serbian-Jewish friendship society) as a symbol of attempts by the Serbian intellectual elite to, through building of memory on the Holocaust based on the narrative of the joint ordeal of Serbs and Jews, promote their image of the current situation in the country.
Davor Stipić (Mon,) studied this question.