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Exhibition and book promotion on Holocaust victims from BiH and Austria

FENA Press release

SARAJEVO, December 17 (FENA) - Austrian Cultural Forum Sarajevo, in cooperation with Jewish cultural-educational and humanitarian society La Benevolencija is organizing an exhibition and a book promotion on Holocaust victims from BiH and Austria today.

Exhibition "Holocaust Victims from Austria and BiH: Portraits and Memories" will open at "Novi hram“ gallery in Sarajevo today.  

Exhibition consists of 22 panels, documents and photos, which show destinies of the Holocaust victims from Austria and BiH, with emphasis on Jews from Austria who came to Yugoslavia after 1983 and resided in BiH cities near Banja Luka, in Bosanski Šamac, Brčko, Čapljina, Derventa and Gacko as refugees.

Book "Holocaust Victims from BiH: Portraits and Memories" will be promoted in Jewish municipality Sarajevo.

Book by Anisa Hasanhodžić and Rifet Rustemović consists of eighteen biographies and its aim is to revitalize the memory of lives of BiH Jews, victims of Holocaust.             

Authors will also present the research project "Austrian Jewish Refugees in territory of BiH in World War II", which is implemented at an Institute for Cultural Studies and Theater History of the Academy of Science of the Republic of Austria, Austrian Cultural Forum Sarajevo stated.

 

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