Core Dox

Teodor Kovač, Ivan Ivanji and Marta Flato survived the 1942 pogrom known as the Novi Sad raid, when Hungarian fascists killed more than a thousand people from Novi Sad and dumped their bodies under the ice of the Danube river. Sociology professor Marija Vasić fights against forgetting and teaches students about the Novi Sad raid, while the local authorities erect a controversial monument to innocent victims, and on that list are the names of war criminals who participated in the Novi Sad raid.

Media trials are a common occurrence in the Balkans, and newspapers, especially tabloids, conduct witch-hunts unpunished. Whoever stands in the way of the powerful ones becomes a victim of stigmatization by the media and institutions, as exemplified in the case of fashion photographer, stylist and DJ Srđan Šveljo, who was accused of pedophilia by the media, without ever being put on trial for that particular crime.