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2 unusual facts about Sajmište concentration camp


Sajmište concentration camp

Its architectural centerpiece was a large tower which was used by Philips to transmit the earliest television broadcasts in Europe.

It also held captured Yugoslav Partisans, Chetniks, sympathizers of the Greek and Albanian resistance movements, and Serb peasants from villages in the Croatian Ustaše-controlled regions of Srem and Kozara, where they had been detained in the Jasenovac concentration camp.


Belgrade Synagogue

Most Jewish men perished at the Autokomanda site near the city center, apart from those killed at the Banjica camp; the camp at Sajmište was on Independent State of Croatia territory and it mostly saw the destruction of women and children.


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