Croatian President apologizes to Jewish victims of the Holocaust in his country, pledges restitution

Hrvatski predsjednik se ispričao židovskim žrtvama Holokausta u njegovoj zemlji,  najavljuje  restituciju

In an address to the Knesset, Israel’s Parliament, last week, he declared : "We need to look into our hearts, and to come to terms with the darkest stain in our history. Here I am, standing before the parliament of the Jewish state, and more importantly, in front of people born in Croatia, and with no ambiguity, I apologize and I ask for forgiveness from all the Holocaust survivors and all the victims,".

He added : "Some members of my nation worked to systematically destroy parts of humanity. We must look in our hearts, at the darkest stain in our history. We must know : The snake is weak, but it is still there."

He said that an apology is not enough, and that he hopes his country will pass a restitution law to reimburse survivors and their descendants for property they lost during the Holocaust.

On je rekao da isprika nije dovoljna i da se nada da če njegova zemlja donijeti zakon o restituciji koja će obeštetiti preživjele i njihove nasljednike za imkovinu koju su izgubili za vrijeme Holokausta.

Svi, osim  oko 5.000  Židova  iz predratne zajednice  u Hrvatskoj, koja je brojila oko 30.000  članova, su stradali u Holokaustu.

Izjava predsjednika Josipovića  je dobro prihvaćena od organizacije B'nei B'rith International, osnivača Svjetske organizacije za restituciju.