Wreaths laid at Mirogoj on International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Zagreb - The highest state delegations on Wednesday laid wreaths at the sculpture "Moses" at the Jewish section of Zagreb's Mirogoj cemetery on the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust.

Wreaths were laid also in memory of the 30,000 Jews killed or gone missing in the Nazi-allied Independent State of Croatia.

The wreaths were laid together by President Zoran Milanović, Parliament Speaker Gordan Jandroković and Deputy Prime Minister Boris Milošević.

Attending the ceremony were also Culture and Media Minister Nina Obuljen Koržinek, Zagreb Jewish Community Rabbi Luciano Moše Prelević, Deputy Parliament Speaker Željko Reiner and members of parliament Milorad Pupovac, Furio Radin and Veljko Kajtazi.

Before them, wreaths were laid by Zagreb Mayor Milan Bandić and a delegation of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), led by its president Peđa Grbin.