TOPOVSKE SUPE (SR) | romasintigenocide

In August 1941, the German military and civil administration set up a concentration camp for Serbian Jews, Roma and political prisoners on the site of the so-called “Topovske Šupe” – a collection of former army barracks and warehouses in the centre of Belgrade. The camp, which was run with the help of Serbian collaborators, served as a prison for roughly 5,000 Jewish men and around 1,500 male Roma, all of whom were later shot at various execution sites around Belgrade.

Did you know

...that military or civilian camps were already in place at the sites of many of the camps operated by the National Socialists before the Nazi era. Many of them continued to be used for decades – both before and after the Nazi era – as military camps, detention centres or refugee camps.

For you to do

Choose a camp that operated during the Nazi era in the neighbourhood where you live and research its history – including before and after. Who ran the camp, and which people were detained or quartered there?

The photo

Entrance to the Topovske Šupe site from Tabanovačka ulica in Belgrade’s Autokomanda district before the Second World War. Source: Rena Redle, Milovan Pisarri: Mesta stradanja i antifašističke borbe u Beogradu. Priručnik za čitanje grada, Beograd, 2014.

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