“Keeping the Memory Alive” Exhibition Opened in Skopje and Bitola

International Holocaust Remembrance Day was commemorated with a variety of events in Skopje and Bitola on 27 January 2012.

On 25 January, the governmental coordination body for Holocaust Remembrance Day, which includes representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Education and Science, and Ministry of Culture, issued a public statement for the press on the significance of the UN-mandated Day of Commemoration to honor the victims of the Holocaust.



Mr. Pande Lazarevski Ph.D, Vice-President of the Holocaust Fund for Jews, gave several interviews for national TV channels in preparation for the events held on the 27th.

Events in Skopje in included a lecture on the significance of Holocaust Remembrance Day by Dr. Danica Popovska, scholar at the Institute for National History, for high school students in Skopje.  The event was followed by a documentary film on the tragedy and survival of Jews in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

Mrs. Liljana Mizrahi, President of the Holocaust Fund, officially opened the ceremony for the exhibition "The Holocaust - Keeping the Memory Alive."  The International Poster Competition is a joint project between Yad Vashem in cooperation with Memorial de la Shoah, France, and the European Shoah Legacy Institute, Czech Republic.

Mr. Nikola Poposki, Minister for Foreign Affairs, attended the ceremony at the Holocaust Memorial Centre in Skopje. Other attendees included ministry officials, heads of diplomatic missions in Skopje, the general public, and national media.  Following the presentation of posters by the Holocaust Memorial Centre's expert, Dushko Veskovski, Mr. Poposki visited the exhibit and met with Holocaust survivors.

In Bitola, history professors gave a lecture on the significance of Holocaust Remembrance Day to high school students. The lecture was followed by a documentary film on the tragedy and survival of Jews from Bitola.  The exhibition "The Holocaust - Keeping the Memory Alive" was also opened in the National Cultural Centre in Bitola.

Image gallery: "Keeping the Memory Alive" - Skopje and Bitola

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