General Counsel Emeritus of the World Jewish Congress Menachem Rosensaft, right, signs a document representing a Muslim-Jewish peace initiative, with the Bosnian Grand Mufti Husein Kavazovic, at the Srebrenica Memorial Center, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, in Potocari, Bosnia, Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024. (Photo by ARMIN DURGUT / Associated Press)SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Jews and Muslims from Bosnia and abroad gathered in Srebrenica on Saturday to jointly observe International Holocaust Remembrance Day and to promote compassion and dialogue amid the Israel-Hamas war. Menachem Rosensaft, a child of Holocaust survivors and until last summer the general counsel for the World Jewish Congress, was also in attendance. Their thriving community was decimated by the Holocaust and today numbers around 1,000 people. The commemoration was followed by the launch of the Srebrenica Muslim-Jewish Peace and Remembrance Initiative devised and signed by Rosensaft and Kavazović.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer January 27, 2024 20:26 UTC