ABSTRACT
This chapter studies commemorative practices of homeland celebrations by the Croatian diaspora in Argentina after the Second World War and analyzes how and why they keep marking the old commemorations, how they relate to and what meaning they assign to the new ones, especially those linked to the Homeland War (1991–1995), how they intertwine old and new celebrations and how they are interpreted by the post-memory generation. The results show a tendency to both a cumulative heroization and victimization. While perceiving themselves as long-term victims of Tito’s Yugoslavia because of being born in Argentina and framing their grandfathers’ participation in the Second World War as acts of patriotism and the fight for freedom, the 1990s Homeland War is framed as the new war of liberation, a continuation of their grandfathers’ fight in the Second World War for the ideal of a sovereign and independent Croatia against Serbian occupation.
