Staro sajmiste has never been adequately marked as a place people visit and this project will fix the historical injustice, city manager Goran Vesic said for RTV Pink.
– By May 10, 1942 it used to be a war camp for the Jews and this is where all
the Jews who lived in Belgrade before the war were killed. After that, it
became a war camp for the Serbs and other antifascists. He was formally located
at the territory of the Independent state of Croatia but it was also governed
by the Germans and this is where the people from all Serbia were brought to. We
think the project is important and that it is our debt towards all the people
killed here to mark this area– Vesic said.
According to him, a few months ago, the
City Assembly made a decision that May
10 is decalred the Day of memory of holocaust, it is a day when the Nazi
authorities in Belgrade published that Belgrade is the city without the Jews,
Beoinfo reports.
– It is a big project which will be implemented in a few years. It is important
it started, we count on the funds provided through donations since there are
foundations in the world for these kind of places. When we find out how the
memorial center will look like, we will know how much it will cost. The project
implementation will last but it is high time Staro sjamiste was marked in a
dignified manner – Vesic said.