Movies of WWII concentration camp massacres are always depressing and heavy, and this one is no exception. Jasenovac, a place name belonging to Croatia, is also synonymous with the tragic history of the massacre of Serbs, Jews and Gypsies by the "Ustasha" elements of the independent state of Croatia during World War II. Croats and Serbs are of the same language and race. The difference lies in their religious beliefs. As said in the film, the way of marking the cross is different. Unfortunately, they are in the Balkans, a melting pot of ethnic conflicts, where persecutors and victims have always existed and exchanged for a long time, as witnessed by Yasenovac during World War II. The Croats who were suppressed by Great Serbism during the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, to be precise, the "Ustasha" elements, used all kinds of cruel means to treat Serbian civilians. Shooting women and children at will, forcing prisoners to dance and brutally killing them with wrist knives, indoctrinating children with fascist ideas, and killing disobedient children, even German officers on the side can't stand it. The priest and the nun even became accomplices, killing without blinking. Dara, the little girl who runs through the whole plot, witnessed her mother and brother being shot and killed. Her motivation for struggling to survive was to protect her younger brother, who was sent to the hospital due to illness. She risked her life to enter the hospital several times. and rescued his brother. When her brother got into the car of the Red Cross, she couldn't resist her desire for freedom and ran desperately behind. In the end, she ran into the car and got a new life, and the audience's hanging heart finally let go. The film is a powerful riposte to the noise of the Holocaust denial of the Holocaust for fascists like Pavelic in the New Europe.
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