In a recently renovated building of the concentration camp Sajmiste (Old Fairground), which now hosts a Museum dedicated to wartime suffering, our associate Rade Ristanovic talked about everyday life and death in Belgrade during the Second World War and a special role that Sajmiste played in it. Serving initially as an extermination camp for Belgrade’s Jewish population, it was transformed in a camp for various imprisoned civilians. You can watch the lecture here.
Dr Ristanovic also exchanged opinions on prospective scholarly collaboration regarding the research on the perpetrators with Museum’s leadership Krinka Vidakovic Petrov, our ex-colleague Milan Koljanin and Asja Draca Muntean, authors of the exhibition. It is also worth mentioning that the process of re-purposing the main building of Sajmiste into a place of remembrance lasted for decades, and not nearly done.
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