Wreath's ribbon reads: In Memory of the Victims - Jasenovac, 700,000
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A part of the central monument at the Holocaust Memorial Park in New York
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JRI Directors arriving prior to the ceremony
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Participants arriving
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Photojournalist Dave Burns of the New York Post and the Bay News
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Father Djokan Majstorovic viewing the central monument
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JRI National Coordinator Barry Lituchy and Father Djokan Majstorovic
discussing the monument prior to the ceremony
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Prior to the ceremony
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An interview prior to the ceremony for the newspapers
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Participants conversing prior to the ceremony
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Taking in the central monument prior to the ceremony
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Taking in the central monument prior to the ceremony
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JRI Director Dr. Craig Pearson prior to the ceremony
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JRI National Coordinator Barry Lituchy opening the Second
Annual Jasenovac Day of Commemoration Ceremony
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Another view of the previous photo
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A view of some of the participants
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Another view at the start of the ceremony
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JRI Director and videographer Joe Friendly filming
the event for his cable TV program
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Participants still arriving
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JRI Director and Survivor Mrs. Eva Deutsch Costabel being introduced
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Another view of some of the participants
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JRI Director and Holocaust Survivor Mrs. Eva Deutsch Costabel
addressing the ceremony
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Mrs. Eva Deutsch Costabel addressing the ceremony with Father
Djokan Majstorovic, Ambassador Milos Prica and Barry Lituchy
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Another view from the crowd
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Barry Lituchy reads from an eyewitness account of the day of
the heroic breakout of prisoners at Jasenovac by Survivor Josip Erlih
which ended the operations of the camp on 22 April 1945
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Media coverage
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Milan Lucic of Serbian Radio and Television in New York City
capturing the ceremony for his weekly programs
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Dr. Milos Prica, UN Special Representative for Republika Srpska at
the Permanent Mission to the United Nations of Bosnia and Herzegovina
addressing the ceremony
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Another view of Ambassador Prica's presentation
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Eva Costabel taking photographs of the event
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Participants continued to arrive. As JRI National Coordinator
Barry Lituchy read the names of some of the 700,000 victims
at Jasenovac seven candles were lit for each one hundred thousand victims
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Following the reading the names and lighting of candles, Father
Djokan Majstorovic gave a moving service for the day of commemoration
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Another view of the service in memory of Jasenovac conducted by
Father Djokan Majstorovic of St. Sava's Serbian Orthodox Church
in New York City
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The service being filmed for Serbian radio and television
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Father Djokan Majstorovic conducting the service for the day of
commemoration for Jasenovac
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Another view of the service
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JRI Director and videographer Joe Friendly capturing it all on tape
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JRI Director Dr. Craig Pearson addressing the Second Annual Jasenovac
Day of Commemoration Ceremony
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JRI Director Dr. Craig Pearson flew in for the ceremony from Phoenix, AZ
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A moment of silence
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The ceremony is brought to a conclusion
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Participants converse and bid farewell to one another after
the conclusion of the ceremony
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Center left of photo with beard and hat is Steven Wohl, the son of Macedonian
Jews who had lived in Macedonia for several hundred years had also spoken
during the ceremony of the victims of the Holocaust in Yugoslavia and had
said Kaddish for the dead of Jasenovac. We apologize for not having any photos
of his presentation at this time
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