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SARAJEVO, January 28 (FENA) - A commemorative academy marking the International Holocaust Remembrance Day - January 27, was held today in the Jewish municipality in Sarajevo.
President of the Jewish Community in BiH Jakob Finci, addressing the audience, said that this had been the tragedy of all humanity and not just the Jewish people, and certainly in the past 70 years, and for the next 70 years, it will continue to be the subject of multidisciplinary research, analysis, verifications and, unfortunately, denial".
Finci added that the region of Southeast Europe, especially the former Yugoslavia, did not pay much attention to the topic of the Holocaust, as the Jews were treated as part of the general masterplan of the occupier.
He recalled that in November 2005, 60 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, the UN General Assembly unanimously adopted a resolution marking January 27 as the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
The commemorative academy dedicated to International Holocaust Remembrance Day, was among others, attended by the Presidency members of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Šefik Džaferović and Željko Komšić.
“We have gathered here to mark a significant historical date and pay tribute to the victims of the Holocaust, the biggest and most brutal crime of the past century ever remembered by human civilization,” Komšić said in his address.
He said that January 27 is marked throughout Europe, and that today, 74 years later, "we remember the day in 1945 when the Red Army liberated 7,500 prisoners left by the Nazis in the Auschwitz concentration camp".
“We are witnesses that in recent history we have had genocides and heinous crimes. Genocide was also committed here, in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Also, it is a disastrous fact that even 74 years after the Holocaust here in our country we still have political groups that are not giving up the Nazi heritage. Unfortunately, such situation we find in Mostar, and thanks to such political powers, the streets of Mostar are named after those who took part in the crime of the Holocaust,” Komšić said.
We, as a constituent part of modern civilization, must not forget what had happened, he added.
“Indeed, we have even greater obligation to build a future in which the rule of law, moral values, the freedom of each individual will be an imperative, a future in which there will be no place for war, extremism, conflicts among each other, and where every individual will have the opportunity to lead a dignified life,” concluded Komšić.
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