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Jewish Community in Sarajevo marks 73 years since closure of Auschwitz

FENA Hana Imamović

SARAJEVO, January 26 (FENA) - January 27, the International Holocaust Remembrance Day was marked today in the Jewish Community in Sarajevo with a prayer for the dead and honoring the murdered Jews and all the other innocent victims of the Second World War.

President of the Jewish Community in BiH Jakob Finci recalled that the intention was to destroy Jews, that the word Holocaust refers to mass murder and is the most terrible crime because those who entered the camps through the doors, left them through crematorium chimneys.

Among the six million killed, there were also several thousand Jews from BiH, most of whom were Sephardic Jews who found shelter in BiH after being banished from Spain in 1492.

Mr. Finci, therefore, believes that BiH has a reason to devotedly remember the victims of the Holocaust in which 85 percent of Jews from BiH were killed, as well as a large number of Roma and all those who, as he said, the Nazis did not approve.

Religious officials in BiH, Reis-ul-ulema of the Islamic community Husein ef. Kavazović and Metropolitan of Dabar-Bosna Hrizostom, reminded of the terrible crimes committed in that war, stressing that it is of utmost importance to remember those who were killed.

“For humanity, it is important to preserve the memory of Holocaust victims when the Jewish people, as well as other peoples who were victims of the great pogrom of the human race, suffered the most. It is important to make ourselves aware that we all have the same values. We should all live in peace while preserving the dignity of each other,” said Reis Kavazović.

High Representative of the International Community in BiH Valentin Inzko, in his address to the commemorative gathering, called the Holocaust an act that has made humanity the most brutal in its entire history.

“The barbarism which has led to the Holocaust and has brought tribulation to societies since the beginning of human history, the barbarism that this country witnessed in the nineties of the past century, began with words so it is necessary to recognize and oppose it,” said Mr. Inzko.

The attendees at the commemorative academy had an opportunity to see a short film about taking away Jews from BiH to the concentration camps in World War II, as well as meeting the good people of other nations who protected them, which is why some of them survived the Holocaust.

In the marking of this anniversary flowers were laid in the Old Jewish Cemetery, and an exhibition about the Crystal Night, entitled “This is How It All Started”, was organized.

(FENA)
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