October in Kragujevac Memorial Park (, 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 List of cities in Serbia, 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 Se ...

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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 ...

). 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 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

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and the old World War I military cemetery with a Monument to Serbian soldier. The Germans carried out the first mass executions in the vicinity of Kragujevac on October 19, 1941. On that day, they forcibly gathered 246 people in the village of Grošnica and took them out for shooting. They liquidated 233 people, while 13 people survived the shooting. The next day, on October 20, one person out of these 13 died as a result of his injuries, so the Germans in the village of Grošnice committed a war crime by shooting a total of 234 people of Serbian nationality. On the same day, October 19, the Germans raided and rounded up 109 people for shooting in the village of Maršić. They liquidated 103 people, while 6 people survived the shooting. In the village of Mečkovac (today Ilićevo) they took 78 people to be shot. They liquidated 75 people, while 3 people survived the shooting. On October 19, 1941, the German armed forces committed a war crime by shooting in the vicinity of Kragujevac, in the villages of Grošnica, Maršić and Ilićevo, a total of 412 civilians of Serbian nationality. In December 2020 an exhibit about the Jasenovac concentration and extermination camp was held.

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Šumarice Memorial Park - Museum of October 21

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