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SARAJEVO, November 9 (FENA) - Exhibition of photographs and other documents "Sarajevo Train without a Timetable", to mark murder of citizens of Sarajevo in infamous Ustasha concentration camp Jasenovac during W2orld War II, opened at the History Museum of BiH last night.
Author Djordje Mihovilović said the exhibition is firstly dedicated to workers of Sarajevo Railway Shop, later rail vehicle factory "Vaso Miskin Crni", and other victims. Sarajevo was selected to display the exhibition because it was one of the urban areas most affected by deportation of residents to Jasenovac at the time.
Exhibition was made possible by Jasenovac Memorial, a public institution which preserves memory of thousands of Sarajevoans murdered in camps within system of Ustasha concentration camp Jasenovac.
Memorial areas has been working with the Historic Museum of BiH in Sarajevo since 2016 in studying material of former Factory Museum and finding files on fates of those who were killed between 1941 and 1945 and those who remembered them.
During that period, dozens of thousands of people were imprisoned and executed in Jasenovac camp, including 152 workers of the main Railway Shop from Sarajevo.
Archives of BiH and History Archives Sarajevo are preserving material on period of World War II.
Exhibition will be opened for the next seven to fifteen days.
(FENA) A. B.
