Lecture/exhibition about Jewish cemeteries in Slavonia and Baranja.
Cemeteries are treasuries of preserving cultural treasures, identity and evidence of the presence of a community in a certain area, so their documentation and subsequent study is extremely important for both minority and majority ethnic groups with the aim of getting to know local, regional, and national, history.
Cemeteries are guardians of a language and a culture, they preserve our names and symbols of religious and secular existence, as well as the names of the gods we pray to. They are symbols of human existence that, even with a certain time lag, provide a lot of information about the community that sets them up. Minority communities erode over time, they are left without generations that could take care of the burial places of their ancestors, and for this reason it is extremely important to document and analyze the places that preserve the culture of the peoples who have been present in these areas for centuries.
The event will take place in the Jewish Community of Osijek.
Lecturer: Ana Lehocki Samardžić