Yugoslavia
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| Capital | Belgrade |
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| Founded | 1918 |
| Area | 255950 |
| Official_languages | Macedonian |
| Slovene | |
| Currency | Yugoslav dinar |
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| ID | 857944 |
About Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia was a country in Southeastern and Central Europe for most of the 20th century. It came into existence after World War I in 1918 under the name of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes by . . .
Srebrenica: A Serbian scientist's long quest to name the dead
... He says there was a massacre at Srebrenica, but he won t use the word genocide, despite the ruling of the UN court - the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia - that what happened indeed constituted the gravest of international crimes...
Switzerland migrant children demand immigration policy apology
... From the 1950s right up until the 1990s, hundreds of thousands of workers - first from Italy, then from Spain, Portugal, and what was then Yugoslavia - made the journey to Switzerland...
Holocaust survivor Dorit Oliver-Wolff receives the British Empire medal
... Oliver-Wolff, born in Novi Sad in Serbia, formerly Yugoslavia - and was not aware that she was Jewish until the age of five years, if a woman, spit on the street...
Brutalist concrete of old Yugoslavia inspires new generation
... Marshal Josip Broz Tito built an authoritarian, socialist Yugoslavia after World War Two...
... The two genocides of the 1990s - in central Africa and the former Yugoslavia - showed what happened when the Security Council was challenged to live up to words of the UN charter...
Holocaust survivor Dorit Oliver-Wolff receives the British Empire medal
Dorit Oliver-Wolff is recognized among the 31 people for The Holocaust to be education
Holocaust survivor who was hidden, detected in a cellar with her mother for Nine Months without light and heating in the New Year Honours.
Dorit Oliver-Wolff, 84, of Eastbourne in East Sussex , in the British Empire medal for services to Holocaust education and awareness.
it was for lectures to schools, youth groups and businesses about their experiences for More Than a decade.
you said she was "very excited" to be honored for their work.
Mrs. Oliver-Wolff, born in Novi Sad in Serbia , formerly Yugoslavia - and was not aware that she was Jewish until the age of five years, if a woman, spit on The Street .
In 1941, she and her mother fled and traveled from place to place in Hungary, the creation of new identities in front of the hiding place in the basement, where her mother would sneak in the night after foods was looking to bombed-out shops.
singer and "pin-up" - modelshe returned in Serbia in the year 1945, after the Soviet Army liberated Hungary, where she discovered that her father and the rest of The Family had been killed by The Nazis .
Mrs. Oliver-Wolff said, to do everything she wanted was "to be a singer One Day ".
Two years later, she received a scholarship to a music Academy, and became a jazz and blues singer, and "pin-up" model in Germany.
Mrs. Oliver-Wolff is recognized among the 31 people in the New Year Honours list for Holocaust education.
Olivia Marks-Woldman, chief executive of The Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, said: "to Have experienced unthinkable trauma and loss in the hands of The Nazis , these remarkable individuals now devote so much of your time, your testimony. to share
"their efforts, share their experiences, have an immeasurable importance, both to honor their loved ones who were murdered by The Nazis , and the lessons about the dangers of prejudice, intolerance and Hatred . "
the holocaust, new year honours, eastbourne
Source of news: bbc.com
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