In the organizer's words:

On Saturday, December 13, 2025, the MosqueForum, in cooperation with the Islamic Community of Bosniaks in Germany (IGBD), invites you to a special commemorative and educational event to mark the 30th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide.

The focus will be on the traveling exhibition "Genocide in Srebrenica: Eleven Lessons for the Future", which sheds light on the events of 1995, the legal process, the voices of the survivors and questions of justice, reconciliation and the culture of remembrance.

The evening prayer with Koran recitation in the central mosque will be followed by a tour of the exhibition in the conference hall, greetings, a lecture by genocide researcher Dr. Hikmet Karčić and a panel with contemporary witnessesand experts from Bosnia-Herzegovina and Germany. The event will conclude with poetry and a multilingual prayer of supplication for all victims of genocide.

Date: Saturday, 13.12.2025
Time: 16:33-20:00
Location: Central Mosque Cologne, Venloer Str. 160, 50823 Cologne
Format: Exhibition, lecture, panel, prayer & remembrance

The event is aimed at people of all ages who are interested in the lessons of Srebrenica for the present and the future.

The exhibition can be viewed until 11.01.2026 in the exhibition hall of the Mosque Forum. It is located on the forecourt of the mosque, next to the information desk.

The Srebrenica genocide took place in July 1995, when more than 8,000 Bosniak boys and men were systematically separated, abducted and murdered by units of the Bosnian Serb army following the capture of the town of Srebrenica, which had been declared a UN protection zone. Women, children and elderly people were forcibly displaced, entire families torn apart and the region "ethnically cleansed". The crimes of Srebrenica were recognized as genocide by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Srebrenica is still considered the most serious war crime in Europe since the Second World War and is a warning to be vigilant against nationalism, racism and hate propaganda.