In accord to the amendments to the Law on national and other public holidays, which the Serbian Parliament adopted on December 5, April 22 will be the National Remembrance Day for the victims of Holocaust and genocide and all victims of fascism in the Second World War. Beginning from 2012, Serbia will mark the two new national holidays – October 21 as the Remembrance Day of Serbian victims in the Second World War, and November 11 as Armistice Day in World War I.

At the plenary session of the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research, held on December 1, 2011 in The Hague, Serbia was unanimously accepted as full Member Country of this respectable organization.

In early September Historiography of the Holocaust in Yugoslavia a book written by Jovan Ćulibrk, has been released as a joint edition of Belgrade Institute for Theological Research and Faculty of Security Studies. [More »]

А groundbreaking international conference about the Jadovno Camp System was held in Banja Luka on June 24 and 25, 2011, attracting some fifty participants from Serbia, Croatia, Israel, USA, Italy, Germany, Russia, Austria, Republika Srpska, and marking a turning point in the approach to history of Holocaust and genocide in the NDH, and in the memorialization of the victims.

On October 20, the Day of liberation of Belgrade, the movie A Good Father – Daughter’s Indictment by Yoash Tatari was shown in the Cultural Center Rex. The premiere was attended by Beate Neimann, the heroine of this full-length documentary telling the story on how she, as daughter of Bruno Sattler, head of the Gestapo in occupied Serbia, faces the truth about her father and the crimes he was responsible for. The film won the Gold World Medal at a New York film festival on January 30, 2004.