Training seminar for 30 Bosnian teachers in Banja Luka in April 2016

Training seminar Banja Luka >Shoah Memorial

From 19 to 21 April, on the premises of the Jewish community in Banja Luka, a training seminar was held for 30 Bosnian teachers on the history of the Holocaust and mass killings in the Balkans during the Second World War.

This event supported by the Claims conference follows an initial operation proposed in April 2015 in Sarajevo and brought together once again the teachers of the two administrative entities Republika Srpska and Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The participants went to the site of Drakulic (located 5km from Banja Luka) where 2300 Serb villagers were murdered by the Ustachian forces on 7 February 1942. Alexander Korb, a specialist in mass violence in Oustachi, Nicolas Patin and Christophe Tarricone were mobilized within a team of speakers mainly calling upon historians of the region.