SARAJEVO, Oct 27 (Hina) - An international conference on Holocaust studies in Southeast Europe opened in Sarajevo on Friday, bringing together over 40 scholars from European countries and the United States. The gathering was organised
by the Goethe Institute and the Jewish community of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
SARAJEVO, Oct 27 (Hina) - An international conference on Holocaust
studies in Southeast Europe opened in Sarajevo on Friday, bringing together
over 40 scholars from European countries and the United States. The gathering
was organised by the Goethe Institute and the Jewish community of
Bosnia-Herzegovina. In his opening remarks, Bosnian Jewish community
leader Jakob Finci said that the commitment made by humanity at the end of the
Second World War, that crimes like those against Jews should never happen
again, had unfortunately failed as evidenced by atrocities in Cambodia, Rwanda
or Bosnia-Herzegovina.
"The remembrance of the Holocaust should be the remembrance of all such
crimes," Finci said, adding that awareness should be raised of the fact that
six million Jews had been killed in the Holocaust.
Among those attending the conference was Professor Ivo Goldstein of
Zagreb University.