Ambassadors of Western countries accredited to Bosnia and Herzegovina on Tuesday paid tribute to the victims killed in the WWII Ustasha concentration camp Jasenovac, thus marking the anniversary of the breakthrough of the last prisoners in 1945.

A group of diplomatic representatives, including the ambassadors of the USA, Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Slovenia and other countries, laid wreaths and paid tribute to the victims in the memorial complex in Donja Gradina, on the Bosnian bank of the Sava, where most of the 80,000 murdered Jasenovac camp inmates were liquidated by mass executions.

“Today, on the U.S. National Day of Holocaust Remembrance, we pay respects to all those who lost their lives at Jasenovac and to all the victims of Nazism and fascism during World War II. It is incumbent on all of us, but especially on the leaders of Bosnia and Herzegovina, to acknowledge the facts and honor the victims. Acknowledgment of the past, no matter how painful, is essential to reconciliation, and it is crucial for preventing future atrocities,” US Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina Michael Murphy tweeted on Tuesday.

At the end of the Second World War, there were only a little over a thousand prisoners alive in the Jasenovac camp, and 600 of them decided to attempt to break out on April 22, 1945, in order to escape certain death.

Less than 130 of them survived.