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Day of Remembrance of Serbian victims in Second World War marked

Kragujevac, 21 October 2022

Today in Kragujevac, Prime Minister Ana Brnabic led the state wreath-laying ceremony on the occasion of the Day of Remembrance of the Serbian victims of the Second World War in 1941, which has been celebrated as a national holiday since 2012.

On this day in 1941, the Germans shot about 3,000 innocent civilians in Kragujevac, including students and teachers.

In addition to the Prime Minister, students of the First Kragujevac High School, Deputy Chair of the National Assembly Snezana Paunovic, Mayor of Kragujevac Nikola Dasic and President of the Constitutional Court Snezana Markovic laid wreaths at the monument to the shot students and teachers in Sumarice.

Before laying wreaths on the "V-3" monument of the Kragujevac high school, a prayer service was held in the Kragujevac October Memorial Park in Sumarice.

In memory of the students and teachers who were shot in the Second World War, the traditional event "The Great School Class" was held.

The ambassadors of Germany, Austria, Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Palestine and Slovakia also paid their respects to the innocent civilians by laying wreaths and attending the ceremony.

High representative of the European Union for Bosnia and Herzegovina Christian Schmidt, as well as representatives of the embassies of the United States of America, France, Israel, Great Britain, Sweden and Montenegro were also present at the event.