Holocaust Remembrance Day in Serbia
Holocaust Remembrance Day in Serbia is held on April 22. This event in the third decade of the month April is annual.
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On 5 December 2011, the National Parliament of the Republic of Serbia adopted the Law on State and Other Holidays in the Republic of Serbia, which established the National Holocaust, WWII Genocide and other Fascist Crimes Victims` Remembrance Day. The date of 22 April was chosen in memory of that date in 1945, when a group of inmates attempted to break out of the Ustaše-operated Jasenovac concentration camp in Croatia.
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