Obj. ID: 50021
Memorials Holocaust Memorial to the Victims of the Strand City Beach in Novi Sad, Serbia, 2013
Memorial Name
No official name
Who is Commemorated?
Serbian and Jewish victims of the Novi Sad Raid
Description
The memorial, located to the left of the entrance to the Štrand City Beach's main entrance, has a cube shape and is constructed of black granite standing on a low platform. Three sides have engraved commemorative inscriptions in Serbo-Croatian, Hebrew, and English, and the artist's name is on the fourth side, at the bottom (the fifth side is left blank). The inscription in Serbo-Croatian (on the top) additionally has a Magen David and a cross as decoration.
Inscriptions
Serbo-Croatian:
Спомен плочу подижу
Град Нови Сад, Епархија Бачка
и Јеврејска општина.
Овде на омиљеном купалишту
снаге фашистичког окупатора
су у Новосадској рацији бацале
грађане Новог Сада под лед.
За већину жртава једина
кривица је то што су
рођени као Срби и Јевреји.
23.01.1942 - 23.01.2013
Нови Сад памти
Translation: The memorial plaque is erected by the City of Novi Sad, the Eparchy of Bačka and the Jewish Community. / Here at the favorite beach, the forces of the fascist occupier threw the citizens of Novi Sad under the ice during the Novi Sad raid. For most of the victims, the only blame is that they were born as Serbs and Jews / 23.01.1942 - 23.01.2013 / Novi Sad remembers
Hebrew
נובי סאד זוכרת
כאן, בחוף האהוב עליהם, הושלכו
אזרחים של נובי סאד מתחת לקרח
של נהר דנובה על ידי כוחות
כובש הפשיסטי.
למרבית הקורבנות, הפשע היחיד שלהם
היה שהם נולדו סרבים ויהודים
23.01.1942 - 23.01.2013
Translation: Novi Sad remembers / Here, on their favorite beach, citizens of Novi Sad were thrown under the ice of the Danube River by the fascist occupier. / For most of the victims, their only crime was that they were born Serbs and Jews. / 23.01.1942 - 23.01.2013
English
'Novi Sad remembers.
Here, at their favorite beach,
citizens of Novi Sad were thrown
under the ice of the Danube by the
fascist occupying forces during the Novi Sad Raid.
For most of the victims, their only
crime was that they were born as
Serbs and Jews.
23.01.1942 - 23.01.2013
Commissioned by
The Novi Sad Municipality
The Eparchy of Bačka
The Jewish Community of Novi Sad.
12 image(s)
sub-set tree:
On the bottom on one of the sides not carrying the commemorative inscriptions, inscribed on the right-hand side:
Љубомир Шћепановић [Ljubomir Šćepanović]
The Novi Sad raid, also known as the Raid in southern Bačka, the Novi Sad massacre, or simply The Raid (Serbo-Croatian: Racija), was a military operation carried out by the armed forces of Hungary, between January 21 and 23 1942. It resulted in the deaths of 3,000–4,000 civilians, mostly Serbs and Jews, in the southern Bačka region.
The Novi Sad Municipality, the Eparchy of Bačka, and the Jewish Community Novi Sad initiated the erection of the memorial. One of the initiators, Aleksandar Veljić, president of the Society for the Preservation of Holocaust Remembrance and member of the Board of Directors of the "Racija 1942" Memorial Society, said on the occasion of the unveiling that: "It is a cube turned to all four sides of the world, which symbolizes reconciliation and coexistence, on the Danube, the river of our destiny, the river of our past and, I believe, a beautiful future. The monument is also unique as it is located on the route on which the executioners marched by force the column of death, to be killed and thrown under the ice".
The monument was unveiled on 23 January 2013. The unveiling was preceded by commemorating the raid victims’ memorial “The Family”, attended by more than 5,000 citizens of Novi Sad. The memorial plaque was unveiled by Bishop Irinej of Bačka and Chief Rabbi of Serbia Isak Asiel. Annual commemoration ceremonies for the raid victims are held between 21 and 23 January.
"Memorials in Novi Sad," Locations (Vojvodina Holocaust Memorials Project), https://www.vhmproject.org/en-US/Locations/Memorials/17 (accessed April 10, 2022)
“Otkrivena spomen-ploča žrtvama Novosadske racije,” Nezavisne novine, https://www.nezavisne.com/novosti/ex-yu/Otkrivena-spomen-ploca-zrtvama-Novosadske-racije/176773 (accessed June 18, 2023)