The International Holocaust Remembrance Day was marked in Tuzla with the laying of flowers on the monument Suza.
January 27 is marked as the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, since the largest concentration camp of the Nazi Germany, Auschwitz-Birkenau, was liberated on that day in 1945.
More than 1,300,000 people from Europe were deported to Auschwitz. Of 1,100,000 killed people, the majority were Jews.
Wreaths were laid yesterday in Tuzla in places where the Jews were taken from Tuzla.
Marina Rajner, president of the Jewish Municipality Tuzla, stated that the Jews taken from Tuzla, Kladanj and Živinice were brought to one building, after which they were taken to the Railway station.
“Over 350 Jews were taken between the two world wars and only 22 of them returned alive. Some of them were killed in partisans and the great majority of them, from the newborn babies to 80-year-old people, ended up in the Jasenovac camp,” Rajner said.
Armin Silard was only four years old when the terrible crime against Jews was committed in Europe. He was born in Srebrenica and his family originates from Austria and the then Czechoslovakia.
“My mother and sister returned alive from the Second World War, and 64 members of my family never saw the light of the day again. My grandfather was treacherously killed in Zvornik, my grandmother in Banjica in Belgrade – they all ended up in camps,” Silard said.
As a four-year-old child, Armin was separated from his mother twice during 1943 in order to be deported to the concentration camp in Zvornik, but he survived thanks to the Bosniaks who saved him.
“My mother was in the collection center, but the residents of Srebrenica saved her, because my father was an appointee in Srebrenica,” Silard added, pointing out that Jews were tortured with gas, they were used in researches, a large number of women were burnt and their ashes spread across the yard.
Chairman of the City Council Tuzla Jozo Nišandžić assessed that the holocaust was an evil of gigantic proportions, that it must not happen ever again and that the remembrance of the killed innocent victims should be an eternal warning. Flowers were laid on the memorial Suza in Tuzla by the representatives of the City of Tuzla and the Jewish Municipality Tuzla.
(Source: klix.ba)
