The photo exhibition "Old Fairground 1941 - 1944" by Marija Janković in the Artget Gallery is a reconstruction of Nazi crimes and a call to judge what was committed in this time of current revisionism on the basis of authentic messages and rare documents
We will never know if Werner, while standing at the window of the PRIZAD building with his camera pointed at the Fairgrounds pavilions, even thought for a moment about their new purpose. It is more likely that the Fairground was found by chance in a photograph whose subject was a striking scene of the sunset. And yet, by chance, this ordinary photo - a military souvenir from Belgrade - immortalized a turning point in the history of Belgrade: the moment when the Belgrade Fair became the Semlin Judenlager
"Let's imagine that someone declares that the sufferings of the Serbs in Jasenovac are 'inaccurate' or secondary - such words would, rightly, cause indignation. Why should the Roma deserve anything less?", asks Mensur Haliti, reacting to the statements from the Old Fairground Memorial Center that "downplay the importance of Roma suffering, and point to the systemic practice of hierarchy among the victims."
Part of the memorial complex of the Staro sajmište camp in Belgrade has been excavated, the memorial plaques have been removed, and documents about these works are unavailable, warns the initiative "The bridge remains".
Although the Ministry of Culture has assessed that the German Pavilion is located in the protection zone of the cultural monument, this execution site was still demolished due to the construction of the road. The Zajedno party and the Holocaust Research and Education Center have evidence that a mass grave is located there
The members of the coalition "Together - We Must" again today, as on Saturday, stopped the excavator from demolishing the German Pavilion at the Old Fairgrounds, because they want to investigate whether there is a mass grave there. They asked the Embassy of Israel for help
Today, an attempt was made to continue with the illegal demolition of the historic Old Fairground, but members of the "Together - We Must" coalition prevented it. The first demolition attempt, in March, stopped the Holocaust Research and Education Center
It is not known who and with what intention demolished the German pavilion at the Old Fairground. The Center for Research and Education on the Holocaust asks the City Assembly to protect this killing ground in its entirety. Until now, the same request was made to the previous city authorities, but the potential of this location was always stronger than its cultural and memorial significance.
In July of last year, Aleksandar Vučić recently declared that the Fairground was "under heavy layers of oblivion" until he remembered him, and that, with him, Serbian society "finally figuratively and really frees the Fairground." And it frees it in the same way that, 30 years ago, Vučić's political like-minded people at the time "liberated" Dubrovnik: from the destroyed old tower of the Belgrade Fair, a "prettier and older" one emerges, all with a panoramic elevator, the sole purpose of which is to give the visitors of the Memorial Center, instead of reminding past, offer a view of the future, Vučić's Belgrade on the water
It's good that after so many decades at the Old Fairground, I guess, something will start to be built. I don't know if the private individuals who had expanded there have already been evicted. There was also one of the headquarters of the party whose president is Aleksandar Vučić. There was also a restaurant that, in addition to everything else, also served bloody steaks
The house of Nazi collaborator Dzafer Deva in South Mitrovica is being reconstructed by the EU and UNDP into a Regional Cultural Center. Critics speak of a "shocking", "shameful and anti-civilization" project that "mocks the victims of Nazism"
Jews, together with Serbs, are one of the first inhabitants of Belgrade. However, few people know that they settled here 500 years ago. And the work on the "Staro sajmište" Memorial Center, the camp from which Jews were en masse forced to die, will begin, perhaps, only next year
I feel an obligation to speak about the Holocaust. Increasingly, the fewer of us alive who can bear witness to that Time of Evil. At the same time, what I had to say seemed more and more meaningless to me, it seemed to me that few people wanted to hear, wanted a future that remembered my terrible times. Especially in Serbia, in Belgrade, which were so thoroughly cleansed of Jews. And then the students of the Third Belgrade Gymnasium shouted on the stage of the Bitef Theater. That cry of girls and boys seventy years younger than me was my roar, my protest that the world is the way it is, my cry for my parents, a cry for all my dead, which I was never capable of
