22.04.2016.
Remembrance Day for the victims of the Holocaust, genocide and other victims of fascism
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At the monument to victims of genocide in the Second World War in the Old Fairground, today,Remembrance Day for the victims of the Holocaust, genocide and other victims of fascism has been marked.Serbian Justice Minister Nikola Selakovic said that it is our obligation to oppose aspirations to a revision of history and a twisting of facts by spreading the truth, as well as to fight a resurrected Nazism and Ustashism.
Selakovic pointed out at the ceremony that the remembrance of the victims and gatherings such as this are a guarantee that genocide will not happen again.
"There's still work to do, many places of execution should be preserved and marked in a dignified manner, the construction of the Museum of the Holocaust and genocide in the Second World War and the obligation to oppose aspirations to a revision of history and a twisting of facts by spreading the truth, as well as to fight a resurrected Nazism and Ustashism", Selakovic said.
The minister noted that such places are a testimony of the ugliest period of the past, but also the places where we should bring our children to talk to them how life can be terrible if we do not learn our lessons from the past and how meaningless it could be if we do not direct it to the future.
The ceremony was attended by the ambassadors of Croatia, Germany, Israel, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the United States and other countries,death camps survivors, members of the familiesof those killed, representatives of the Federation of Jewish Municipalities of Serbia and the Roma national minority council, as well as diplomatic corps, associations and citizens.The Remembrance Day for the victims of the Holocaust, genocide and other victims of fascism in the Second World War is marked to commemorate 22 April 1945 and the breakthrough of prisoners from the Ustasha’s death camp in Jasenovac.
The date of 22 April was taken to mark that day – the day when a group of 1,075 remaining prisoners of the camp in 1945 started the breakthroughout of the camp Jasenovac, but only 127 reached freedom.
