Jewish cemetery (Belgrade)

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Coordinates: 44 ° 48 ′ 41.2 ″  N , 20 ° 29 ′ 8.9 ″  E

The Jewish Cemetery (or Sephardic Cemetery ) in Belgrade was laid out in 1888 as a Sephardic burial place. It has a size of 12,000 square meters and has about 4,000 gravestones , mostly from the 19th to 20th centuries. The cemetery is located in the Palilula district and is separated from the New Cemetery by Ulica Ruzveltvo , which, however, is already in the Zvezdara district . In addition to the Jewish cemetery, there is also the Heroes' Cemetery for the liberators of Belgrade in World War II .

The memorial for the Jewish victims of fascism by the Yugoslav architect and sculptor Bogdan Bogdanović , which was designed from 1951 and completed in 1952 and commissioned by the Jewish community in Belgrade and was one of the first Holocaust memorials on Yugoslav territory, is located in the cemetery . The monument consists of two 10.5-meter-high concrete wings clad with granite slabs. Since the memorial is located at the lowest point of the cemetery, Bogdanović increased the distance between the wings to create an "anti-perspective". On the front side there is a Star of David and the Hebrew abbreviation of a quote from the 1st book Samuel (25:29). At the back there are blessing priest hands and a Levite jug. Behind the left wing there is a free-standing menorah . Spolia from Belgrade's old town, which was bombed in World War II, was built into the pavement of the Dromos , as well as the low walls that surround it . These were not chosen for symbolic reasons alone, but also because of the lack of building materials and because the Jewish community insisted on stone as a building material.

literature

  • Bogdan Bogdanović. Memoria and Utopia in Tito Yugoslavia . Wieser, Klagenfurt, ISBN 978-3-85129-834-5 , p. 58-61 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bogdan Bogdanović. Memoria and Utopia in Tito Yugoslavia . Wieser, Klagenfürt, ISBN 978-3-85129-834-5 , p. 58 .