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 Kragujevac ( sr-Cyrl, Крагујевац, ) is the fourth largest city in Serbia and the administrative centre of the Šumadija District. It is the historical centre of the geographical region of Šumadija in central Serbia, and is situated on ...

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of the execution of an estimated 2,800 men and boys of the town by the

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occupation forces on October 21, 1941, during

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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.

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s within the

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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

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; 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

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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.

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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

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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 {{Cultural-Heritage-stub

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