April 1944
Photo: Novi Sad Jews brought to the synagogue from where they were deported to the Nazi death camps, primarily Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Panelists
Culture of memory and contemporary anti-Semitism
Novi Sad | 25. April | The Silk Factory | 18:30
On the occasion of commemorating the 80th anniversary of the deportation of the Jews from Novi Sad and Bačka to Auschwitz-Birkenau, in cooperation with the Jewish Community of Novi Sad, is organizing the program in the Silk Factory (Svilara, Đorđa Rajkovića 6b).
You will be able to see the extended version of the exhibition, “Some words about the Holocaust in Serbia.” We will mark the beginning of the work on the platform “ABC on Semitism,” tell you about the new educational graphic novel about the Novi Sad Raid and deportation, and the program “Facts Not Fiction” supported by the EU CERV program.
The central part of the program is the panel talk “Memory Culture and Contemporary Antisemitism” with distinguished guests and experts from the UK, Germany, Croatia, and Serbia.
Distinguished guests, representatives of the city of Novi Sad, ministries, and foreign embassies will speak at the program’s opening.
Andrew Percy
a member of the British Parliament, Vice-Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group against Antisemitism, and the parliamentary group for the new Holocaust Memorial and Learning Center in London.
Florian Eisheuer
Program Manager of the Berlin-based European Network of Practitioners Against Antisemitism (EPNA) supported by the German Federal Foreign Office.
Mirna Herman
Director of the Center for the Memory Culture in Zagreb, one of the coordinators of the rebuilding of the exhibition in the Yugoslav Pavilion in Block 17 in the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Museum .
Josh Dubell
Director of the education department of the “Solutions Not Sides” foundation from London, which deals with antisemitism and Islamophobia through discussions with young people.
Ladislav Trayer
Vice President of the Jewish Community of Novi Sad.
Misko Stanišić
Moderator and host, Director of Terraforming and member of the delegation of the Republic of Serbia to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA).
80 years since the deportation
The deportation of Jews from Bačka and Novi Sad was organized and carried out by the Hungarian and German occupation authorities from the end of April 1944. The Jewish community was at that time already decimated during the Novi Sad Raid in January 1942, and later, by being sent to forced labor in labor camps or to the Eastern Front, where many were killed. By deportation to death camps in 1944, the Jewish community of Novi Sad and Bačka was almost completely destroyed.
From May to July 1944, the Hungarian gendarmerie, under the leadership of German SS units, deported about 440,000 Jews from Hungary and territories under Hungarian occupation. Most were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where the majority were killed in gas chambers immediately upon arrival at the camp.
While the persecution of the Jews of Novi Sad and Bačka is a part of local microhistory and a unique experience of the local Jewish community, at the same time, it is part of the European Holocaust – an unprecedented crime that took place on the entire European continent.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Moshe and Malka Lovy, Source Record ID / Collections: 2001.336
The project “ABC of Antisemitism” is co-financed by the European Network of Practitioners Against Antisemitism EPNA
The project “Facts Not Fiction” is co-financed by the CERV program of the European Union.
The participation of Josh Dubell is part of the bilateral exchange program between Terraforming and Solutions Not Sides supported by the European Network for Countering Antisemitism through Education ENCATE
The program at KC Svilara is implemented in cooperation with the Jewish Municipality of Novi Sad.
The creation of an educational graphic novel about the deportation of the Jews from Novi Sad is co-financed by the Claims Conference.
