SISAK ++SISAK, Jan 14 (Hina) - A plaque was unveiled on a former synagogue in +Sisak (about 50km southeast of Zagreb) on Thursday in recognition +on the contribution of Sisak's Jews to the town and in memory of +Jewish victims of
World War II in Sisak and the surrounding areas.+ The plaque on the music school "Fran Lhoka", a former synagogue, was +unveiled by Sisak's Mayor Darko Pavlak and president of the +Coordination of Jewish Municipalities in Croatia, Ognjen Kraus.+ The writing on the plaque reads: "This building held a synagogue +since its construction and benediction in 1880 until the +destruction of the Sisak Jewish community in the 1941 holocaust".+ Speaking about the history of the Jewish community in Sisak, Kraust +recalled that 248 Jews had lived in Sisak before WWII. Only several +Jews survived World War II, and the Sisak Jewish community no longer +exists, Kraus stressed.+ Speaking at the ceremony was als
SISAK, Jan 14 (Hina) - A plaque was unveiled on a former synagogue in
Sisak (about 50km southeast of Zagreb) on Thursday in recognition
on the contribution of Sisak's Jews to the town and in memory of
Jewish victims of World War II in Sisak and the surrounding areas.
The plaque on the music school "Fran Lhoka", a former synagogue, was
unveiled by Sisak's Mayor Darko Pavlak and president of the
Coordination of Jewish Municipalities in Croatia, Ognjen Kraus.
The writing on the plaque reads: "This building held a synagogue
since its construction and benediction in 1880 until the
destruction of the Sisak Jewish community in the 1941 holocaust".
Speaking about the history of the Jewish community in Sisak, Kraust
recalled that 248 Jews had lived in Sisak before WWII. Only several
Jews survived World War II, and the Sisak Jewish community no longer
exists, Kraus stressed.
Speaking at the ceremony was also Beno Heis, the grandson of the
last rabbi in Sisak who fell victim of the holocaust and the Ustasha
regime when he was killed in the Jasenovac concentration camp.
The chief rabbi in Croatia, Kotel Dadon, led a Hebrew prayer.
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