Sajmište concentration camp in Belgrade, Serbia was located at the former Belgrade fairground site near the town of Zemun, in the former Independent State of Croatia (NDH), a World War II fascist puppet state of Germany.
According to the information panel on site "within the First Belgrade complex, formed in 1937, Gestapo in December of 1941 founded the concentration camp in order to exeucte Jews and Gypsies. After the execution of Jews, it became a place of execution of captured partisan and chetnik fighters as well as the civilians in the war area between May 1942 and July 1944. What once was the biggest German concentration camp in occupied Serbia and southeast Europe today is one the most important memorial places in Serbia."
A monument commemorating the victims of the camp created by the artist Miodrag Popovic, was placed on the banks of the river Sava on April 22 1995 on the ocassion of the day of commemoration of the victims of genocide and 50 th anniversary of the victory over fascism.
A monument commemorating the victims of the camp created by the artist Miodrag Popovic, was placed on the banks of the river Sava on April 22 1995 on the ocassion of the day of commemoration of the victims of genocide and 50 th anniversary of the victory over fascism.
These pictures were taken in March 2022 and show some views of the monument.
