04.10.2020.
State commemoration at the execution site in Jajinci
A commemoration was held in the Jajinci Memorial Park to mark the Day of Remembrance of the Suffering of Serbs, Roma and Jews and the preservation of a dignified memory of tens of thousands of victims in the Second World War who were executed at this site near Belgrade.
The state commemoration was led by the Prime Minister of Serbia, Ana Brnabić, who laid a wreath and wrote in the Memorial Book.
Prime Minister Brnabić pointed out in her address that “by defending independence, freedom and the interests of Serbia, we are following the examples of our ancestors and writing yet another chapter in the libertarian history of our country”.The Prime Minister pointed out that we confidently continue to preserve anti-fascist values and that “the flame of Serbia’s freedom continues living and will continue living forever”.
After the wreath-laying ceremony, the President of the “Jasenovac” association, Milinko Čekić, who survived the Ustasha concentration camp, addressed the gathering.
The commemoration was attended by the Serbian Government ministers, the State Secretary in the Ministry of Defence Aleksandar Živković, Colonel Željko Gavrilović, Deputy Commander of the Guard of the Serbian Armed Forces, representatives of the City of Belgrade, the diplomatic and the military-diplomatic corps, the Roma and Jewish organisations, former prisoners in the death camp during the Second World War, and war veterans.Jajinci is the largest Second World War execution site in Serbia where, in the period from 1941 to 1944, the Nazis killed more than 60,000 people - Serbs and Jews, members of the People's Liberation Movement, anti-fascists, and those who did not agree with the occupation of the country and resisted the occupier.
The great Memorial Park in Jajinci, including the monument to the victims, was opened on 20 October 1964, on the 20th anniversary of the partisan forces’ entry into Belgrade.
