Holocaust Day marked in Belgrade

NEWS 10.05.202216:07
SPOMENIK ŽRTVAMA GENOCIDA
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Belgrade city officials and the ambassador of Israel laid wreaths at the monument to World War 2 genocide victims at the site of a concentration camp on Tuesday.

The wreaths were laid at the Lager Semlin site (Staro Sajmiste) in New Belgrade by Ambasador Yahel Vilan, Belgrade Jewish Community President Aron Fuks and deputy Mayor Goran Vesic, the city Beoinfo portal said. It quoted Vesic as recalling that Tuesday was the 80th anniversary of the day that the Nazi occupation authorities declared Belgrade free of Jews. “The largest part of our Jewish community died at this site, women, children who were imprisoned here between December 1941 and May 10 1942,” he said.

Vesic also recalled that the Belgrade city authorities established a day of remembrance for the Jews killed during World War 2 in Belgrade.

Ambassador Vilan told the ceremony that “we want to show that there are Jews still in Belgrade and will always be part of Serbia and its capital”.

Fuks said that the descendants of the Jewish victims of the Nazis testify to the fact that Belgrade had a large Jewish community.