UNOFFICIAL CELEBRATION OF V-E DAY HELD IN ZAGREB

ZAGREB, May 8 (Hina) - Around 500 people gathered in Zagreb's Square of Croatian Great Men yesterday evening for an unofficial celebration of Victory in Europe Day. The celebration was organized by the Committee of the Action for Victims of Fascism Square, a civic opposition group campaigning for the square to be given back its former name. The Committee activists reiterated their demand that the former name be given back. The gathering was also addressed by representatives of the Anti-Fascist Veterans Alliance, the Croatian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights, the Zagreb Jewish Community and some opposition parties. "Neo-Nazism and xenophobia are reawakening throughout the world, threatening to reenact the most dreadful chapters of our history", Jewish Community President Ognjen Kraus said. Kraus recalled the demolishing a synagogues in Germany, desecrating of Jewish cemeteries in France, as well as some alarming occurrences of neofascism in Croatia. (Hina) jn bk 101353 MET may 95