{"id":105,"date":"2015-01-23T16:17:24","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T16:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ledena-tisina.kcns.org.rs\/?p=105"},"modified":"2015-02-08T22:25:54","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T22:25:54","slug":"righteous-among-the-nations-novi-sad-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ledena-tisina.kcns.org.rs\/en\/reports\/righteous-among-the-nations-novi-sad-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018RIGHTEOUS AMONG THE NATIONS: NOVI SAD\u2019 \u2013 EXHIBITION"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018Whoever saves a life, it is considered as if he saved an entire world\u2019<\/strong>\u00a0<\/h4>\n

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\u00a0 Opening ceremony of the exhibition \u2018Righteous Among the Nations\u2019 in the Small Art Gallery marked the beginning of the programme entitled \u2018Freezing Silence Speaks\u2019 by the Cultural Centre of Novi Sad that commemorates the victims of the Novi Sad Raid of 1942. Apart from educational aspect, the exhibition is dedicated to the memory of citizens of Novi Sad who, at the cost of their own lives, saved their Jewish fellow citizens. With their deeds and courage, in spite of facing death sentence, Marija Tomi\u0107, Nade\u017eda Pa\u0161\u010dan and Dr Du\u0161an Jovanovi\u0107 and all who helped hiding Jewish people earned the title of the Righteous Among the Nations, one of the highest acknowledgements of the State of Israel.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 Marija Tomi\u0107 saved her husband\u2019s cousins and unknown people, Nade\u017eda Pa\u0161\u010dan saved her cousin, and Du\u0161an Jovanovi\u0107 also helped people he did not know. The acknowledgement Righteous Among the Nations, in form of a medal and a diploma, testifies about the courageous act of non-Jewish people who, during the World War II, risked their lives and lives of their loved ones to save often unknown Jewish people. In 1953, the Israeli Parliament formed the Yad Vashem, the museum commemorating the Holocaust victims. In the Yad Vashem there is a wall of honoured people, where all the names of the Righteous are carved on, and up until recently, there was a custom to plant a tree on their behalf, which signifies life and rebirth.<\/p>\n

HERE<\/a> you can see the testimony of a victim that survived the Holocaust who proposed that Mrs Marija Tomi\u0107, n\u00e9e \u0160anc, called Ketika from Novi Sad, be declared a RIGHTEOUS.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 Author and exhibition curator, historian Stefan Radojkovi\u0107, said that the idea is to make the Small Art Gallery into an educational space, to bring together text, pictures and discussion, and to create a sort of interactive classroom.<\/p>\n

\u2013 This is not a traditional exhibition, because not all information is here, in sense that someone can come alone, see it, and understand everything. Therefore my role is to take people through the story about the Righteous Among the Nations as an institutions and as people from Novi Sad who deserved this honourable acknowledgement. Out of 25,000 Righteous in the world, there are 131 registered in Serbia, for now, and three of them are from Novi Sad, said Radojkovi\u0107.<\/p>\n

\u2013 The Cultural Centre of Novi Sad, for the third year in a row, organises the series of cultural-artistic and historical-educational programmes in memory of the victims of Novi Sad Raid. Apart from this horrific crime that happened in January 1942, here in the Small Art Gallery we also remember good people and their accomplishments in the World War II. Last year, in this very space, we organised an exhibition about S\u00e1rv\u00e1r concentration camp dedicated to bishop \u0106iri\u0107, Jovan \u0106ulum and Dr Kosta Had\u017ei who saved children from that camp. This year, we remember people from Novi Sad \u2013 Marija Tomi\u0107, Nade\u017eda Pa\u0161\u010dan and Dr Du\u0161an Jovanovi\u0107 who risked their lives to save Jewish neighbours, cousins and fellow citizens, said Sun\u010dica Markovi\u0107, deputy director of the Cultural Centre of Novi Sad.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 After opening the exhibition, Mr Radojkovi\u0107 held a short educational class, explaining who are the Righteous Among the Nations from Novi Sad and what this important acknowledgment means.<\/p>\n

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The exhibition lasts until 24 January, and all who are interested in educational classes can sign up at info@kcns.org.rs.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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