Banja Luka training seminar >Shoah Memorial
From 19 to 21 April, on the premises of the Banja Luka Jewish community, a training seminar was held for 30 Bosnian teachers on the history of the Shoah and mass killings in the Balkans during the Second World War.
This event supported by the 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 5 km from Banja Luka) where 2,300 Serbian villagers were murdered by Ustaše forces on 7 February 1942. Alexander Korb, a specialist in Oustachi mass violence, Nicolas Patin and Christophe Tarricone were mobilized within a team of stakeholders mainly involving historians from the region.
Banja Luka training seminar >Shoah Memorial
From April 19 to 21, the Jewish Community of Banja Luka held a training seminar for 30 Bosnian teachers on the history of the Holocaust and mass killings in the Balkans during the Second World War. The Claims Conference backed the event, which followed the first seminar, in Sarajevo in April 2015, when teachers from the Serbian Republic and the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina came together. The participants visited Drakulic (five kilometers from Banja Luka), where Ustasha forces murdered 2,300 Serb villagers on February 7, 1942. Alexander Korb, a specialist in Ustasha mass violence, Nicolas Patin and Christophe Tarricone mobilized a team including mainly historians of the region.
