Šumarice Memorial Park

"Interrupted flight" monument in Šumarice Memorial Park

The monument of pain and defiance on a stamp of East Germany, 1967

Šumarice Memorial Park (Serbian Cyrillic: Меморијални парк Шумарице) is the site near Kragujevac, Serbia of the execution of an estimated 7,000 men and boys of the town by the German occupation forces on October 21, 1941, during World War II. According to Cohen, "All males from the town between the ages of sixteen and sixty were assembled and the victims -- including high school students -- were selected from among them."^[1]

There are several monuments in the park: the monument to the murdered schoolchildren and their teachers (the "Interrupted Flight" monument), the "Monument of pain and defiance", the "One hundred for one" monument, the "Resistance and Freedom" monument, and the monument to shoe cleaners, are some of the best known.

The Museum of Genocide is located at the site of the massacre.

See also

• Kragujevac massacre
• List of Yugoslav World War II monuments and memorials in Serbia
• Historic Landmarks of Exceptional Importance

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Šumarice.

• Šumarice Memorial Park at www.spomenicikulture.mi.sanu.ac.rs
• Virtual tour to area, monuments and buildings

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Coordinates: 44°01′24″N 20°54′02″E / 44.02333°N 20.90056°E / 44.02333; 20.90056