This is a list of monuments and memorials dedicated to the
National Liberation Movement, its fighters and its victims in the
World War II in Yugoslavia, built on the territory of the present day
Serbia, including those in the autonomous provinces of
Vojvodina and
Kosovo and Metohija
The Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija ( sr, Косово и Метохиja, Kosovo i Metohija; sq, Kosova dhe Metohija), commonly known as Kosovo and abbreviated to Kosmet or KiM, is an autonomous province defined by the constituti ...
.
This list does not include busts or other statues of individuals (
see bottom).
History
The Yugoslav authorities established several memorial sites between 1945 and 1960, though widespread building started after the founding of the
Non-Aligned Movement.
Yugoslav president
Josip Broz Tito
Josip Broz ( sh-Cyrl, Јосип Броз, ; 7 May 1892 – 4 May 1980), commonly known as Tito (; sh-Cyrl, Тито, links=no, ), was a Yugoslav communist revolutionary and statesman, serving in various positions from 1943 until his deat ...
commissioned several memorial sites and monuments in the 1960s and 70s dedicated to World War II battle, and concentration camp sites. They were designed by notable sculptors, including
Dušan Džamonja
Dušan Džamonja ( sr, Душан Џамоња, ; 31 January 1928 – 14 January 2009) was a Yugoslav sculptor of Serbian ancestry.
Education and career
Džamonja was born in 1928 in Strumica, former Vardar Banovina, Kingdom of Yugoslavia. In 1 ...
,
Vojin Bakić,
Miodrag Živković,
Jordan and Iskra Grabul, and architects, including
Bogdan Bogdanović,
Gradimir Medaković. After Tito's death, a small number were built, and the monuments were popular visitor attractions in the 1980s as patriotic sites, and since the
Yugoslav Wars and the
dissolution of Yugoslavia, the sites are abandoned and have lost their importance.
List
See also
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People's Heroes of Yugoslavia monuments {{short description, None
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List of Yugoslav World War II monuments and memorials
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List of World War II monuments and memorials in Croatia
List of Yugoslav World War II monuments and memorials in Croatia represent monuments and memorials built on the territory of the present day Croatia in Yugoslavia between 1945 and 1991. It does not include busts or other statues of individuals ( se ...
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List of World War II monuments and memorials in Montenegro
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List of World War II monuments and memorials in Slovenia
List of World War II monuments and memorials in Slovenia represent Yugoslav monuments and memorials built on the territory of the present day Slovenia.
History
The Yugoslav authorities established several memorial sites between 1945 and 1960, th ...
Notes
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Yugoslav World War II monuments and memorials in Serbia
World War II memorials
Serbia
Serbian military-related lists