Vucevic lays wreath to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Milos Vucevic laid a wreath at the Menorah In Flames memorial at Belgrade's Danube Quay on Monday, marking the start of International Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorations.

Vucevic laid the wreath as a special envoy of the president of the Republic, at a ceremony also attended by government ministers Adrijana Mesarovic, Zoran Gajic, Nemanja Starovic, Tatjana Macura, Novica Toncev and Tomislav Zigmanov.

The ambassadors of Israel and Russia, Avivit Bar-Ilan and Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko, Belgrade Deputy Mayor Vesna Vidovic, Serbian Armed Forces officials and representatives of foreign military and diplomatic missions, as well as descendants of Holocaust victims and survivors, were also in attendance.

Rabbi Isaac Asiel read a prayer at the beginning of the ceremony.

The International Holocaust Remembrance Day, marked annually on January 27, commemorates the WWII liberation of the Nazi Auschwitz concentration camp by Soviet troops in 1945.