In memory of the six million murdered Jews, the Mostar Old Bridge, the Herceg Stjepan Kosača Center, as well as the National Museum in Sarajevo, were illuminated on Thursday.
International Holocaust Remembrance Day is marked on January 27. On this occasion, M.T. The Abraham Group, in cooperation with the Embassy of the State of Israel in BiH, is organizing several events in Mostar, and the main event is the commemoration for all victims of the Holocaust, which will be held at the Mostar Jewish Cemetery.
On the same day, together with the Bosniak Cultural Community “Preporod” Mostar, they will promote wo books in Mostar: “Derviš M. Korkut: Biography: The Savior of the Sarajevo Haggadah” and “The Muslim Resolutions: Bosniak responses to the crimes of the Second World War in Bosnia and Herzegovina”.
Marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day seeks to strengthen the condemnation of the crimes of the Holocaust and the forces that fight against racist hatred, which is achieved by constantly highlighting the importance of remembering survivors, victims, saviors and liberators.
A special free film screening program at the Meeting Point Cinema in Sarajevo and online via the Ondemand.kinomeetingpoint.ba platform. will be held tonight on the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
The film “The City and the City” by Christos Passalis and Syllas Tzoumerkas will be shown at the Meeting Point Cinema in Sarajevo at 7 p.m.
The film will be available for free online as well, today from 12 p.m. to midnight throughout BiH and the region on the on-demand platform of the Meeting Point cinema: https://ondemand.kinomeetingpoint.ba/.
The film visually and narratively contrasts the horrors that the Jewish community in Thessaloniki went through during the 20th century, with the contemporary experience of a city that has violently and irrevocably lost its multicultural character and quality almost overnight.
Free tickets for the film screening at the Meeting Point Cinema in Sarajevo can be picked up today, one hour before the start of the screening (from 6 p.m., the film starts at 7 p.m.).
The Holocaust Remembrance Day program is organized by the Jewish Community of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with the support of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Ministry of Human Rights and Refugees of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and with the media patronage of BHT1.
