21.10.2026.
Remembrance Day for Serbian victims in Second World War
The Chief of the Serbian Armed Forces General Staff, General Milan Mojsilović, took part in the central commemorative ceremony at the Kragujevac October Memorial Park in Kragujevac today, marking Remembrance Day for Serbian victims in the Second World War.
Leading a delegation from the Ministry of Defence and the Serbian Armed Forces, General Mojsilović paid tribute to the innocent victims of the Nazi occupiers and laid a wreath at the Monument to the Executed Students and Teachers in Šumarice with full military honours.The Chief of the General Staff also attended a prayer service for the New Martyrs of Kragujevac, as well as the Great School Lesson, a traditional musical and theatrical programme dedicated to the memory of the citizens of Kragujevac who were executed by a firing squad.
The state ceremony was led by the caretaker Prime Minister of the Republic of Serbia, Prof. Đuro Macut, MD-PhD, and was attended by government ministers, Mayor of Kragujevac Nikola Dašić, and numerous citizens.Remembrance Day for Serbian Victims in the Second World War is a national holiday observed on October 21 - the anniversary of the mass execution of civilians in Kragujevac in 1941. Among the victims of the occupying forces were students and teachers from the Kragujevac Grammar School. The memory of their suffering is preserved as an enduring reminder of the horrors of war.
