The Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Genocide against Serbs, Jews and Roma in the Independent State of Croatia and the 80th anniversary of the breakout of inmates from the Jasenovac concentration camp is being marked today in Donja Gradina.
Today in Donja Gradina, the Day of Remembrance of the victims of the Ustasha crime – genocide in the Jasenovac concentration camp and its largest execution site Donja Gradina near Kozarska Dubica was marked. At the same time, today the Day of Mourning was declared in the RS to commemorate the victims of the Ustasha genocide.
The top management of Republika Srpska, the chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina Željka Cvijanović and the president of the Republic of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić laid wreaths at the Poplar Cemetery in Donja Gradin Memorial Area.
According to the data of the Donja Gradina Memorial Area, 700,000 victims of Ustasha crimes perished in the infamous Jasenovac camp during World War II, including 500,000 Serbs, 40,000 Roma, 33,000 Jews, and 127,000 anti-fascists. 20,000 children died in Jasenovac.
The Remembrance Day of the Victims of the Genocide of Serbs, Jews and Roma in the Independent State of Croatia from 1941 to 1945 and the 80th anniversary of the breakout of prisoners from the Jasenovac concentration camp are jointly marked by the governments of the RS and Serbia.
The NDH death camp system included about 80 camps, and Donja Gradina, as the largest execution site in the Jasenovac concentration camp system, was formed in August 1941.
Flowers and wreaths were laid by camp survivors, a delegation of Jewish communities and organizations, a delegation of the Roma community, Israel’s ambassador to BiH Galit Peleg, representatives of the Russian Embassy in BiH, representatives of the Hungarian Embassy in BiH.
Officials are speaking in Donja Gradina, and among them are the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, and the President of the RS, Milorad Dodik.
