OSIJEK TO MARK YOM HASHOA OSIJEK, April 18 (Hina) - Marking Yom Hashoa on 18 April, representatives of the local Jewish community and authorities of the city and county of Osijek (eastern Croatia) on Sunday laid wreaths in front of
the monument 'Mother and Child' erected in the city's Gajev Square in tribute to Holocaust victims, and on a place where a detention centre used to be organised during WW II on the Tenjska road.
OSIJEK, April 18 (Hina) - Marking Yom Hashoa on 18 April,
representatives of the local Jewish community and authorities of the
city and county of Osijek (eastern Croatia) on Sunday laid wreaths in
front of the monument 'Mother and Child' erected in the city's Gajev
Square in tribute to Holocaust victims, and on a place where a
detention centre used to be organised during WW II on the Tenjska
road.#L#
About 2,000 local Jews, who passed through the camp, were deported to
the death, said Darko Ficher, the president of the Osijek Jewish
municipality, on today's commemoration held in tribute to all victims
of the Holocaust.
Before the Second World War, a large Jewish community lived in Osijek.
Today, there are only about a hundred ethnic Jews in this biggest
eastern Croatian city.
In 1951, the Israeli parliament (Knesset) passed a law on proclaiming
the 27th day of Nissan as Yom Hashoa, the Holocaust and Martyrs
Memorial Day when commemorations should be served in memory of victims
of the Holocaust. The date was chosen in tribute to the start of the
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in spring 1943.
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