October in Kragujevac Memorial Park ( sr, italic=yes, Spomen-park „Kragujevački oktobar", Спомен-парк „Крагујевачки октобар"), also known as Šumarice Memorial Park (''Memorijalni park Šumarice'', Меморијални парк Шумарице), is the site near
Kragujevac,
Serbia
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of the execution of an estimated 2,800 men and boys of the town by the
German
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occupation forces on October 21, 1941, during
World War II
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(
Kragujevac massacre
The Kragujevac massacre was the mass murder of between 2,778 and 2,794 mostly Serb men and boys in Kragujevac, by German soldiers on 21 October 1941. It occurred in the German-occupied territory of Serbia during World War II, and came as a r ...
). Among the dead were hundreds of high school students. The 21 October Museum was designed by architect Ivan Antić is located at the site of the massacre.
Monument
A monument is a type of structure that was explicitly created to commemorate a person or event, or which has become relevant to a social group as a part of their remembrance of historic times or cultural heritage, due to its artistic, hist ...
s within the
park include the monument to the murdered schoolchildren and their teachers (the "Interrupted Flight" monument) by sculptor Miodrag Živković; the "Monument of pain and defiance" by sculptor Ante Gržetić; the "One hundred for one" monument by
Nandor Glid; the "Resistance and Freedom" monument by Gržetić; and the Shoeshiners monument ("Crystal Flower") by architect Nebojša Delja. The complex also contains the Monument to the Slovaks killed during the
World War I
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and the old World War I military cemetery with a Monument to Serbian soldier.
In December 2020 an exhibit about the
Jasenovac concentration and extermination camp was held.
Gallery
File:Kragujevac-_Muzej_21_oktobar.jpg, 21 October Museum
File:Večni_plamen_slobode,_Šumarice01.JPG, Eternal "Flame of Freedom"
File:Kragujevac,_Šumarice,_Spomenik_bola_i_prkosa.JPG, "Pain and Defiance" monument
File:Spomenik_Sto_za_jednog.jpg, "One hundred for one" monument
File:Споменик_отпора_и_слободе_у_Шумарицама.JPG, "Resistance and Freedom" monument
File:Šumarice,_Peto_tri.JPG, detail of the "Interrupted Flight" monument
File:Spomenik_u_Šumaricama.JPG, Monument to the victims of World War I
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll, one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, ...
See also
*
List of Yugoslav World War II monuments and memorials in Serbia
*
Historic Landmarks of Exceptional Importance
References
External links
Šumarice Memorial Park - Museum of October 21
Kragujevac
Parks in Serbia
World War II monuments and memorials in Serbia
Museums in Serbia
Museum districts
Historic Landmarks of Exceptional Importance
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