DjakovoDJAKOVO, June 5 (Hina) - About 200 members of Jewish communities fromOsijek, Zagreb, Sarajevo, Belgrade, Novi Sad, Sombor, Zrenjanin andother towns attended a commemoration for the victims of the Holocaustat the Jewish cemetery
in Djakovo, eastern Croatia, on Sunday.
DJAKOVO, June 5 (Hina) - About 200 members of Jewish communities
from Osijek, Zagreb, Sarajevo, Belgrade, Novi Sad, Sombor, Zrenjanin and other
towns attended a commemoration for the victims of the Holocaust at the Jewish
cemetery in Djakovo, eastern Croatia, on Sunday. About 600 were
killed at a detention camp in Djakovo from 1 December 1941 to 5 July 1942. Some
2,000 Jews, mainly from Bosnia-Herzegovina, passed through that camp, with
Jasenovac and Auschwitz the final destination.
"The Holocaust is an evil that must never recur again," said Damir
Lajos, president of the Osijek Jewish community.
A brief service was said by the chief rabbi in Croatia, Kotel
Da-Don.
Wreaths were laid.