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Serbia has always been on side of freedom in fight against fascism

Belgrade, 9 November 2021

Prime Minister Ana Brnabic attended tonight at the National Theatre the marking of the International Day against Fascism and Anti-Semitism – “Crystal Night”.

The International Day against Fascism and Anti-Semitism, 9 November, is marked all over the world in memory of 1938, when the "Crystal Night" took place in Germany, which was marked as the beginning of the pogrom of the Jews and the symbolic beginning of the Holocaust.

On that occasion, a Memorial Concert was organised tonight at the National Theatre in Belgrade, which was attended by Serbian Parliament Chair Ivica Dacic, Minister of Labour, Employment, Veterans and Social Affairs Darija Kisic Tepavcevic, Minister of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure Tomislav Momirovic, representatives of the Serbian Army, members of the Serbian Parliament, representatives of religious communities and the diplomatic corps.

In her address, Brnabic said that we must never allow ourselves to be silent about evil.

Today is not just a day to remember, but to warn how little it takes to enter the devouring darkness, said Brnabic.

The Prime Minister pointed out that Serbia has always been and will always be on the side of freedom, that it has always opposed fascism, and that it will always do so, noting that even today history reminds us of an important lesson, so that evil would not happen again.

She reminded that the violence on the German streets, under the rule of Adolf Hitler, on 9 November 1938, meant the beginning of an organised, legally legitimised and publicly supported persecution of Jews, which ended with the murder of six million innocent men, women and children, which we must never forget.

The fight against fascism and anti-Semitism must not be just a mere syntagm, but a duty and an obligation, so that nothing similar would ever happen again, she said.

In "Crystal Night" 83 years ago, more than 8,000 Jewish houses and shops as well as more than 1,500 synagogues and their cemeteries were destroyed, while the Jews were imprisoned, wounded and killed throughout the Nazi Germany.