photo: © TANJUG

photo: © TANJUG

Monday, 21 October 2024

National Assembly Deputy Speaker Paunovic Lays Wreath at Monument to Shot Students and Professors in Kragujevac

The Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia Snezana Paunovic, in the capacity as representative of National Assembly Speaker Ana Brnabic, laid a wreath today at the Monument to the Shot Students and Professors in Kragujevac.


The poem "Lessons from Memory" was performed at "The Great School Lesson" in the Memorial Park Sumarice, marking 83 years since one of the biggest crimes of the German occupiers in the Second World War, the mass shooting of civilians, students and professors.

The Archbishop of Kragujevac and Metropolitan of Sumadija Jovan, together with the priests of the Sumadija Diocese, held a prayer service next to the "Interrupted Flight" monument.

On the mound next to the monument to the students and teachers of the First Kragujevac Grammar School, National Assembly Deputy Speaker Snezana Paunovic laid a wreath in her capacity as representative of National Assembly Speaker Ana Brnabic.

The crime in Kragujevac was a mass reprisal for the killed and wounded soldiers of the Wehrmacht. 100 were shot for one killed German soldier, and 50 civilians for a wounded one.

In the period from 19 to 21 October 1941, fascists shot almost 3,000 innocent civilians in and around Kragujevac, including 300 high school students and teachers.


Source: TANJUG


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