Holocaust Remembrance Day marked

International Holocaust Remembrance Day has been marked today in Serbia's capital city of Belgrade.

Izvor: Tanjug

Thursday, 27.01.2011.

09:49

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International Holocaust Remembrance Day has been marked today in Serbia's capital city of Belgrade. Minister of Labor and Social Policy Rasim Ljajic, representatives of the City of Belgrade and members of the diplomatic corps and the Association of Jewish Communities in Serbia laid wreaths at a monument to the victims of the Holocaust at the grounds of the former German Nazi concentration camp Staro Sajmiste, which the occupying army set up in Belgrade. Holocaust Remembrance Day marked Ljajic stated that dreadful crimes took place during the occupation of Serbia in the Second World War. “Staro Sajmiste is one of the largest execution sites in Serbia where 6,320 Jews, mostly women and children, were killed from December 1941 to May 1942,” Ljajic said. He underlined that about 90 percent of Jews who lived in Serbia before 1941 did not survive World War Second. Ljajic said that over 130 Serbs have been presented with Righteous Among the Nations honorary title that the State of Israel awards to non-Jews who risked their lives during the holocaust to save Jews from extermination by the Nazis. “Serbia is proud of its anti-fascist tradition and its contribution to the victory over fascism and Nazism in World War Second denying any possible revision of history or relativization of committed crimes,” Ljajic said. “Today, we express our deepest sympathy for the horrific suffering of six million Jews, who were brutally killed during the World War Second which is the greatest downfall in the history of mankind,” he said. The International Holocaust Remembrance Day was established by the UN General Assembly on November 1, 2005, to mark the day when the largest Nazi death camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau (Poland) was liberated by Soviet troops. The ceremonies today (Beta)

Holocaust Remembrance Day marked

Ljajić stated that dreadful crimes took place during the occupation of Serbia in the Second World War.

“Staro Sajmište is one of the largest execution sites in Serbia where 6,320 Jews, mostly women and children, were killed from December 1941 to May 1942,” Ljajić said.

He underlined that about 90 percent of Jews who lived in Serbia before 1941 did not survive World War Second.

Ljajić said that over 130 Serbs have been presented with Righteous Among the Nations honorary title that the State of Israel awards to non-Jews who risked their lives during the holocaust to save Jews from extermination by the Nazis.

“Serbia is proud of its anti-fascist tradition and its contribution to the victory over fascism and Nazism in World War Second denying any possible revision of history or relativization of committed crimes,” Ljajić said.

“Today, we express our deepest sympathy for the horrific suffering of six million Jews, who were brutally killed during the World War Second which is the greatest downfall in the history of mankind,” he said.

The International Holocaust Remembrance Day was established by the UN General Assembly on November 1, 2005, to mark the day when the largest Nazi death camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau (Poland) was liberated by Soviet troops.

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