Еxhibition Banjica Concentration camp The Prisoners of Užice Region
Authors: Evica Micković, Snežana Lazić
Realisation: Snežana Lazić, Jelena Mitrović Kocev, Evica Micković, Isidora Stojanović, Jelena Nikolić, Bojan Kocev, Miodrag Gavrilović, Dragan Knežević, Aleksandar Savić, Nemanja Spalović, Aleksandar Kovačević
Opening ceremony: Vidoje Drndarević, the Deputy Mayor of the City of Užice
The standing of the Historical Archives of Belgrade The Banjica Concentration camp-Prisoners guests in the Historical Archives of Užice since April 24th until May 31st. Two Archives through this exhibition and two- volume Book with the same title, commemorated victims of the Banjica Concentration camp so reminded on a true nature of the time, system and ideology which result the Camp was.
The Director of the Historical Archives of Užice, Vesna Prljević, so the Director of the Historical Archives of Belgrade, Dragan Gačić, MA addressed to the visitors pointing out the monstrous crimes made in the past obligate us to take responsibility for our knowledge on the facts written in the records kept in the Archives, mentioning the public that Books of Banjica registered 23.637 inprisoned and 4.286 executed individuals.
The standing follows the existance of the Camp and suffering of the inmates through the exhibited records, books and photographs. Special segment represent exhibited records kept in two Archives regarding the life and suffering of prisoners coming from today municipalities of Arilje, Bajina Bašta, Ivanjica, Kosjerić, Nova Varoš, Priboj, Prijepolje, Užice, Užička Požega and Čajetina. The exhibition educates the visitors to think about destiny of every individual-victim of dehumanized criminal system.
Еxibition Banjica Concentracion Camp Inmates
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Exhibition Banjica Concentration camp The Prisoners of Čačak and Lučani Region
Realisation: Evica Micković, Snežana Lazić, Goran Davidović, Isidora Stojanović, Jelena Nikolić, Zoran Milošević
Technical support: Branko Ćalović, Vladimir Zorić, Vladimir Mijatović, Jelena Mitrović Kocev, Bojan Kocev
Visualisation: Bojana Đurović
Art-graphical solution: Dragana Lacmanović
The authors of the Catalogue: Evica Micković, Goran Davidović, Isidora Stojanović, Snežana Lazić
Opening ceremony: The Director of the Intermunicipal Historical Archives of Čačak, Lela Pavlović and former prisoner of the Banjica Concentration camp, Dragan Subotić from the City of Čačak.
Two Archives through this exhibition and two- volume Book with the same title, commemorated victims of the Banjica Concentration camp so reminded on a true nature of the time, system and ideology which result the Camp was.
The Director of the Intermunicipal Historical Archives of Čačak, Lela Pavlović addressed to the visitors and pointed out that Camp registered 1.149 individuals from Čačak and Lučani, but 212 executed and 366 deported to other camps where 153 of the deported ones were executed. The standing follows the existance of the Camp and suffering of the inmates through the exhibited records, books and photographs. Special segment represent exhibited records kept in two Archives regarding the life and suffering of prisoners coming from the Municipality of Lučani and the City of Čačak. The exhibition educates the visitors to think about destiny of every individual-victim of dehumanized criminal system.
Thanks to the affability of the Director of Nadežda Petrović Gallery, Milica Petronijević, the exhibition is realized in extraordinary showroom within the Galery.
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Exibition Banjica Concentration Camp prisoners: Municipality of Gornji Milanovac
Opening date: November 23th, 2010
Realization: Evica Micković, Milena Radojčić, Jelena Nikolić, Isidora Stojanović, Snežana Lazić, Aleksandar Marušić, Vladimir Mijatović
Technical support: Bojan Kocev, Milan Čavorović, Vesna Pehrat, Nada Đorđević
Visualization: Bojana Đurović, engineer architect
Graphical solution: Dragana Lacmanović
Catalogue authors: Evica Micković, Milena Radojčić, Aleksandar Marušić, Goran Davidović
Opening ceremony: Dragan Gačić, MA, the Director of the Historical Archives of Belgrade opened the exhibition; Mr Borisav Čeliković, the Director of the Museum of Rudnik-Takovo Region and Vera Todorović, the President of the Association of Combatants, made a speech about the destruction of residents of this region in the Concentration camp of Banjica.
The exhibit visits statistics: between November 23th and December 19th, 2010, the exhibition visited 500 people.
Historical Archives of Belgrade intended to make available to the public historical documents-Books of records of the Concentration camp, providing complete information on profiles of Banjica Concentration camp prisoners.
Special segment of the standing represents exhibited documents-personal files, photographs, personal belongings ilustrating the destiny of camps inhabitants originated from the current Municipality of Gornji Milanovac: Jevtović Milena, the teacher; sisters Leposava and Gordana Lazić, students; Čivović Kosta, typographer, deported from the Banjica to Mauthauzen Concentration camp where he perished; Majdanac Milorad, wheat trader; Ivković Nenad, officer of the Belgrade National Bank, born in Gornji Milanovac; Damjanac Radovan, lance sergeant from the Brajići village; Ivković Mihajlo, peasant from the Gornji Banjani village.
Banjica imprisoned 651 persons from the mentioned region. Statisticly it represents 2,7% of all recorded prisoners with outcome of 174 perished: 162 shot, 9 dead and 3 hanged persons. Number of perished persons originated from the Municipality of Gornji Milanovac refers to 4,06% of the total number of victims of Banjica scaffold; 184 inhabitants were freed, 134 of them were deported to forced labour or Concantration camps of Germany, Austria, Norwey and France. The destiny of 159 persons has left as unresolved issue.
The first prisoner recorded to the Book, numbered 1, originated from this region: Milojko Žižović, the law student from Gornji Branetići village, was detained on July 10th, 1941, as twenty year old young man and after the hospital treatment freed on January 22nd, 1942.
Historical Archives of Belgrade, the Municipality of Gornji Milanovac and the Museum of Rudnik-Takovo Region commemorated the victims of Banjica Concentration camp preparing the exhibition Banjica Concentration camp – Prisoners /1941-1944/ , a two-volume Book with the same title, so the Catalogue Banjica Concentration camp /1941-1944/ Prisoners: the Municipality of Gornji Milanovac.
exibition Banjica Concentration Camp
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Exhibition Centuries to Remember, Visions to Create
Opening of the exhibition: 16 April 2004
In charge of the project: the Historical Archives of Belgrade and the Institute for the Protection of Monuments
Authors of the exhibition: Branka Prpa, PhD and Vera Pavlović
The exhibition was opened by: Radmila Hrustanović, the mayor of Belgrade
The exhibition was prepared on the occasion of the 600th anniversary of Belgrade as the throne city, part of the Days of Belgrade celebration, 16 to 19 April 2004.
The exhibits of the exhibition were displayed on the billboards located along the streets from the Branko bridge to the premises of the Historical Archives of Belgrade. Ten billboards were used to show important events in the history of Belgrade. For a couple of months, the citizens of Belgrade had an opportunity to pass daily by the documents which, in the most attractive manner, using modern advertising structure, marked the 600th anniversary of its history, from 1404 when Belgrade became, for the first time, the throne city of the Serbian state.
The tenth billboard was devoted to the bombing of Belgrade by NATO alliance in 1999 and it contained a photograph of the scale model of the destroyed Avala tower. The accompanying part of the exhibition was a guide/prospectus which, in addition to a short history of Belgrade, contains the plans and program of all events in the city.
The exhibition attracted considerable attention of the citizens of Belgrade.
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