Vucic: Serbia grateful for everything Zuroff has done for truth about suffering of Serbs in Jasenovac

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic met with the director of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre Efraim Zuroff in Belgrade on Wednesday, and noted that Serbia was grateful for everything Zuroff had done for the truth about the suffering of the Serbs in Jasenovac, a WWII-era death camp in the then Independent State of Croatia.

"Today, I had the honour of speaking with Simon Wiesenthal Centre Director Efraim Zuroff, the last surviving Nazi hunter. Dr Zuroff, a tireless fighter for the truth and justice, was not giving up even when it was easier to remain silent, and his work is not just in archives and court records - his work is in the names he has returned to history, in the Holocaust victims he has made visible again," Vucic wrote in an Instagram post.

"We are proud of our good cooperation, friendship and the commitment to shedding light on crimes from WWII. We are grateful for everything he has done for the truth about the suffering of the Serbs in Jasenovac. While others looked away, he spoke with knowledge and with his heart. We together assessed further steps in cherishing the memory of the victims of the Nazi regime. Serbia remains determined in the fight against antisemitism, and our obligation is to keep the memory for the sake of the past and, even more so, for the sake of the future," Vucic noted in the post.