27.01.2020.
International Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorated
A delegation of the Ministry of Defence and the Serbian Armed Forces has attended today a national tribute paying ceremony on the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day – 27th January, at the World War II Genocide Memorial within the former concentration camp complex at the Old Belgrade Fairground.
The state ceremony was led by envoy of the President of the Republic of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, Minister of Labour, Employment, Veteran and Social Affairs Zoran Đorđević, and wreaths were laid by the representatives of the Serbian Government and the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, representatives of the City of Belgrade, members of the diplomatic corps, former prisoners of the camp, descendants of the victims, representatives of the Union of Jewish Municipalities of Serbia, representatives of the Roma National Minority Council, associations and citizens.
The International Holocaust Remembrance Day was established on 1st November 2005 by a resolution of the United Nations General Assembly.Defining the day in 1945 when Auschwitz-Birkenau, the most notorious death camp in enslaved Europe, was liberated, the UN General Assembly was guided by the need for reaffirmation of human rights, prevention and punishment of genocide, as well as the perpetual threat of racial, national and religious hatred based on prejudice.
The resolution calls on all UN members to respect the memory of the victims of the Holocaust and encourages the development of educational programs on the history of the Holocaust, with a view to demonstrating a determination to help prevent genocide in the future.World War II claimed millions of innocent victims. Auschwitz, Treblinka, Mauthausen, Dachau, Majdanek, Jasenovac, Staro sajmište, Jajinci, the Red Cross camp in Niš are just some of the mass killing fields for innocent victims.
