The Bosnian-Herzegovinian community in Great Britain has actively participated this year in numerous commemorations organized in memory of the victims of the Holocaust and genocide in Cambodia, Rwanda, Darfur and Bosnia.
The memory of the Holocaust is actually the memory of all the disasters that people themselves caused by killing others and others differently because of their skin color, religion, or political beliefs.
The Holocaust is a word that is often mentioned in the second half of the 20th century. Although in 1945 the world unanimously said: “Never again”, genocide was repeated, and it was precisely on European soil, in Bosnia and Herzegovina,
On this occasion, the supplementary schools in Bosnia and Herzegovina held a suitable program to once again remind the children what the Holocaust is, why it happened and what hatred towards others and those who are different can contribute to.
Students of the Bosnian supplementary school in Birmingham had the opportunity to watch the documentary film “Saving the children from the Holocaust” at the Bosnian House . The film is based on the true story of British humanitarian Sir Nicholas Winton , who organized a rescue operation that saved 669 Jewish children from a Nazi death camp in what was then Czechoslovakia and brought them to safety in Great Britain in the period from 1938 to 1939. After the war, his victim was unknown to anyone. But in 1988, Winton’s wife Grete found an album from 1939 with a complete list of the children and their photographs.
After that, the teaching staff of the Bosnian supplementary school, Azra Bašić, Emir and Eldina Bolić, and Alma Aganović, held a workshop with the students, trying to explain to them the meaning of the Holocaust, but also other genocides, with a special focus on the genocide in Srebrenica.
Also in the Peace Garden of St. Thomas in Birmingham, a memorial tree dedicated to the memory of the victims of genocide was planted and at the same time a pledge that the city of Birmingham will use the lessons from Srebrenica in the fight against prejudice, discrimination and hate crimes. The tree also pays tribute to the City of Birmingham’s ongoing support for the Bosnian community and Remembrance of Srebrenica.
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