Medals of the righteous among the nations awarded in Sarajevo

SARAJEVO, October 17 (FENA) - On Thursday evening a ceremony was held at the Jewish municipality in Sarajevo in which medals were handed as recognitions awarded by the Museum of the Holocaust from Israel “Yad Vashem” which is awarded since the foundation of the Jewish state and given to those who had courage to save lives of persecuted Jews in the WWII.

Title of the recognition is the “Righteous”. It draws its roots from the Old Testament and is awarded to people who risk their own lives to save Jewish friends, neighbors and relatives.   

On Thursday evening in Sarajevo, the medal of the Righteous was awarded posthumously to Zekira Besirevic and Roza Sober - Dragoje, two women who saved lives of two Jews during the WWII in Sarajevo.  

Recognitions were awarded to their children by Israel’s Ambassador to BiH, Amira Arnon.

Until now, 47 names of the Righteous were revealed in BiH. President of the Jewish Community in BiH, Jakob Finci stated that there will probably be more of them thanks to the activities of the Institute for the Research of Crimes against Humanity.

(Fena)