Genocide Remembrance Day marked

Serbia is this Thursday marking the Remembrance Day for the victims of the Second World War genocide. The genocide was committed against Serbs, Jews and Roma during the Nazi occupation of Serbia, and in the Independent State of Croatia (NDH). Genocide Remembrance Day marked Serbian President Boris Tadic paid respect to the victims at the Jajinci Memorial Complex, the site of atrocities against Jews, Roma and Serbs. On behalf of the Serbian government, Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Ivica Dacic paid tribute to the victims and placed wreaths at the memorial to the victims of Staro Sajmiste (Old Fairgrounds) concentration camp set up by the Nazi occupying forces, where thousands of Belgrade Jews perished. The representatives of the Serbian Army, the Federation of Associations of Veterans of the National Liberation War (SUBNOR), the Association of the Prisoners of Genocide Camps in NDH in 1941-1945 and their descendants, and the Jewish and Roma community in Serbia also honored the innocent victims. The commemorations were attended by the surviving inmates of death camps, victims' family members and the diplomatic representatives of Israel and Germany in Serbia. Schools in Serbia will hold theme classes dedicated to the phenomena of racial discrimination, xenophobia, intolerance, anti-Semitism, genocide and the Holocaust. The Remembrance Day is marked on the occasion of the liberation of the NDH Jasenovac death camp, where according to findings of a commission set up in Yugoslavia after the war, 500,000 Serbs, 80,000 Roma and 23,000 Jews were murdered, as well as thousands of anti-fascists of various nationalities. Researchers of the Belgrade Museum of Genocide have managed to make a list of 98,252 victims killed in Jasenovac and identify them by name, while historian Antun Miletic confirmed 64.093 other victims, marked as unidentified. The 150,000 figure is considered the lower likely number of victims of the Ustasha genocide, since whole families were also murdered outside the death camps - in their homes, fields, and pits in the puppet Nazi NDH. The entrance to the Jajinci memorial site (B92)

Genocide Remembrance Day marked

Serbian President Boris Tadić paid respect to the victims at the Jajinci Memorial Complex, the site of atrocities against Jews, Roma and Serbs.

On behalf of the Serbian government, Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Ivica Dačić paid tribute to the victims and placed wreaths at the memorial to the victims of Staro Sajmište (Old Fairgrounds) concentration camp set up by the Nazi occupying forces, where thousands of Belgrade Jews perished.

The representatives of the Serbian Army, the Federation of Associations of Veterans of the National Liberation War (SUBNOR), the Association of the Prisoners of Genocide Camps in NDH in 1941-1945 and their descendants, and the Jewish and Roma community in Serbia also honored the innocent victims.

The commemorations were attended by the surviving inmates of death camps, victims' family members and the diplomatic representatives of Israel and Germany in Serbia.

Schools in Serbia will hold theme classes dedicated to the phenomena of racial discrimination, xenophobia, intolerance, anti-Semitism, genocide and the Holocaust.

The Remembrance Day is marked on the occasion of the liberation of the NDH Jasenovac death camp, where according to findings of a commission set up in Yugoslavia after the war, 500,000 Serbs, 80,000 Roma and 23,000 Jews were murdered, as well as thousands of anti-fascists of various nationalities.

Researchers of the Belgrade Museum of Genocide have managed to make a list of 98,252 victims killed in Jasenovac and identify them by name, while historian Antun Miletić confirmed 64.093 other victims, marked as unidentified.

The 150,000 figure is considered the lower likely number of victims of the Ustasha genocide, since whole families were also murdered outside the death camps - in their homes, fields, and pits in the puppet Nazi NDH.