After 1963, Block 17 of the former Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp was an exhibition location for many years with an emphasis on the Holocaust in the former Yugoslavia. However, due to the breakup of Yugoslavia, the exhibition was abandoned and the halls have stood empty since 2009. This will now be changed.
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia and Slovenia have signed an agreement to renovate Block 17, the UN cultural organization announced on Thursday. A new permanent exhibition will be set up there “about the Holocaust in the former Yugoslavia and the fate of deported Jews and non-Jews”.
The project has been talked about for over a decade. “Today, fourteen years of diplomatic negotiations finally bear fruit,” UNESCO chief Audrey Azoulay said on Thursday. “This historic agreement fills a gap, a lack of memory of where these atrocities took place.”
About 66,000 Jews murdered in Yugoslavia
During the Holocaust, approximately 66,000 of the 80,000 Jews in what was then Yugoslavia were murdered. About 20,000 people from the country were deported to Block 17 of the former Auschwitz I camp.
The Nazi death camp is a symbol of the genocide of six million European Jews committed by Nazi Germany. Between 1940 and 1945, a million Jews and 100,000 other people were murdered in the camp.
Source: Krone
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