Danon Dr Jakov - Jadovno 1941.

exterior and the copola of the Temple. It was filmed before the earthquake in 1969.
On the left downward there is the picture of the Temple before the World War II.
Aškenas temple
The old Jewish cementery un Banja Luka’s settlement of ''Borik'' kept the longest,
until 1976, when, on the initiative of the city board was transformed into the tennis
playground.
The snapshot of the old Jewish cementery in Banja Luka from 1976,
on both left and right side, the devastation of the cementery started in 1977.
During the removing of the marble commemorative plaques the parcel was
unprotected, and therefore some marble plaques were stolen and finished on other cementeries
and private houses. 117 The three sides of the old stone wall were ruined, and the fourth one,
toward the Orthodox cementery, remained only, where it stands even today. The Bureau for
the protection of the monuments, culture and nature remained mute, and it only did the
archive filming as the rememberance on the part of the history (dissapeared from the face of
the earth) of a people, which was demolished by the vandal act of of the regime of that time,
what finally brought to further marginalization of the Jews in Banja Luka, and the Orthodox
one is still enclosed with the stone wall as it was separating for years from the Jewish one,
which is no longer existing thanking to ''Socialist streams'' of the city administration for the
right brotherhood and unity. 118 On the monument there were carved the names of the Jews
who had suffered before the World War II, and there are missing the grave plaques stolen at
''transfering'' of the cementery.
117 At the beginning of July 2009 we were informed that the stolen marble plaques of the old Jewish cementery
are under the foundation of the houde predicted for the demolition in the settlement of Borik.
118 Thanking to several years persistent searching (JOBL – Jewish Community of Banja Luka) of the parcel of
old Jewish cementery, the Government of Republic of Srpska and the city administration of B. Luka, by a great
gesture, agreed for the granting of the replacing parcel for the construction of JCC (Jewish Cultural Center) with
the synagogue in B. Luka, and before the law on restitution, which must be brought in the next year.
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