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Bubanj Memorial Park

Coordinates: 43°18′18″N 21°52′21″E / 43.30500°N 21.87250°E / 43.30500; 21.87250
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Three fists

Memorial Park Bubanj (Serbian: Мемориjални парк Бубањ) is a World War II memorial complex built to commemorate the shooting and execution of the 12,000 citizens of Niš and Southern Serbia, and it is located in Palilula municipality of Niš, Serbia.

Standort

Situated on the hill southwest of the Bubanj of Niš, which cut the main road Niš - Skopje, is situated 2 km from the other Serbian Cultural Property of Great Importance, Crveni Krst concentration camp.

Memorial complex

Fists

The complex is arranged as park, the memorial trail is a about half a mile long, a marble relief of size 23x2,5 m long, consists of five compositions that symbolize the "killing machine", hanging and firing squads, the people revolting, surrender of invaders and victory. Main feature and three concrete obelisks that symbolize the raised hands with clenched fists.[1]

Each of the three fists are different in sizes and they are a symbol of men's, women's and children's hands that defy the enemy, because entire families were killed at Bubanj.

Nearby there is a summer stage.

History

World War II

German fascists turned Bubanj forest into a scaffold, to which Serbs, Gypsies and Jews were brought by trucks from the camps day and night and shot there. Since February 1942 to September 1944 [2] about 10,000 inmates and detainees were killed by the Special Police and penal institution. The whole terrain is intersected by trenches in which the shooting victim were buried. Before the withdrawal of the Germans captured Italians were digging up the trenches and burned corpses in order to destroy all traces of atrocities committed.[2]

Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

Execution site was in 1950 originally marked by a memorial pyramid, and new monument, "Three fists" work of Croatian sculptor Ivan Sabolić was opened on the 14th October 1963.[3] Bubanj Memorial Park was declared Historic Landmark of Exceptional Importance in 1979, and it is protected by Republic of Serbia.[1]

Recent History

In 2004 in the complex the chapel was built of glass and metal. It is architectural work of the architect Alexander Buđevac, and on 2009, big reconstruction project occurred on entire Bubanj memorial hill.[4]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bubanj Memorial Park.
  • Entrance on Bubanj hill
    Entrance on Bubanj hill
  • Path to the monument
    Path to the monument
  • Overview of the memorial front view
    Overview of the memorial front view
  • Death row
    Death row
  • Summer stage
    Summer stage
  • Bubanj Glass chapel
    Bubanj Glass chapel

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Cultural Monuments in Serbia, Bubanj Template:Sr icon
  2. ^ a b Palilula and Culture: Historical monuments ((en))
  3. ^ Bubanj at wwww.nistourism.org.rs Template:Sr icon
  4. ^ Počelo uređivanje Bubnja Template:Sr icon

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