MEMORIAL CEMETERY – Sremska Mitrovica

MEMORIAL CEMETERY – Sremska Mitrovica

Next to the Sremska Mitrovica Orthodox Cemetery, from 1941 to 1944, the Germans and Ustaše killed approximately 7,950 men and women. The tortured victims were forced with bayonets to dig their own graves.

This site is also the burial place of 308 fighters of the People’s Liberation Army who fell for the liberation of Sremska Mitrovica, as well as 20 Bulgarian soldiers and 18 Red Army soldiers. The remains of four national heroes are also interred here: Janko Čmelik, Stanko Paunović-Veljko, Boško Palkovljević-Pinki, and Slobodan Bajić-Paja.

The memorial cemetery was designed in 1960 by architect Bogdan Bogdanović. On the earthern mounds are bronze flames, and between them are three stone plaques with inscriptions authored by Dobrica Ćosić, as well as a cube-shaped stone monument listing the names of the four national heroes.

Next to the memorial cemetery is a memorial complex dedicated to the victims of fascist terror, as well as a memorial museum that operated until the early 1990s.

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