BELGRADE, NOVI SAD -- Today marks the 67th anniversary of the so-called Novi Sad raids, where the Nazis murdered 1,300 Jews, Serbs and Roma.

Delegations from the Vojvodina Assembly, the City of Novi Sad and several political parties will lay wreaths at the memorial to the victims by the Danube river.

Novi Sad Mayor Igor Pavličić and Simon Wiesenthal Center Director Efraim Zuroff will speak at the commemoration.

The Jewish Community and the Serbian Orthodox Church will hold a wake for the victims.

The ceremony will also be attended by lecturers, teachers and professors, who have been taking part at a Holocaust Seminar in Novi Sad over the last three days.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center, based in Jerusalem, continues to call on Hungary to try those responsible for the crime.

Zuroff, who was granted the freedom of Novi Sad yesterday, said that Serbia was working sufficiently on investigating the crimes, quoting as an example the seminar for teachers on the theme of the Holocaust, designed to introduce them to ways of teaching children about the Nazis and Nazi crimes.

“Clearly, the Holocaust, education on the Holocaust, is not one of those things that automatically happens very quickly. This seminar, the three-day seminar, is very important for beginning education, for training teachers and lecturers, historians, people interested in the subject, and those who want to learn more about it. And I can tell you that I have been really impressed by the organization and support that the conference received from the Serbian government and the municipality of Novi Sad,“ Zuroff told B92.

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