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Once and Today, a German Camp at Beogradskom Sajmištu

This documentary tells the story of Sajmiste, a Nazi Concentration Camp in Serbia on the left bank of the Sava next to Belgrad. Sajmiste was active between Dec. 41 to Sep. 44 and was used initially for Jewish prisoners. Most of the Serbian Jews lost their lives in gas tracks that were used in the camp during Spring 42. Later, in Aug. 42, when Belgrade was declared as "free from Jews", Sajmiste was used for anti-Nazi activists. In 1944 the camp was bombed from the air by American planes and the result was 80 dead and 170 wounded. The original cause for the bombings was a near by railroad track. SS men ran...

Director : Dejan Kosanovic

Production Year : 1992

Duration : 44

Language : Serbian-Croatian

Landscapes of Resistance

A documentary biograghic movie. Sonja Vujanovic was one of the first women who joined the partisan resistance movement in Yugoslavia. She was inspired by the revolutionary books she received from a classmate in high school, she joined the communist and antifascist organization in the late 1930s and in 1941 became a partisan fighter in German-occupied Serbia. She was captured, tortured and after several other prisons and concentration camps taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau. There she became a member of the resistance and a leader of its combat unit. Landscapes of her revolutionary life as they exist today , the...

Director : Marta Popivoda

Production Year : 2021

Duration : 95

Language : Serbian-Croatian