Šumarice Memorial Park
October in Kragujevac Memorial Park, also known as Šumarice Memorial Park, is the site near Kragujevac, Serbia of the execution of an estimated 2,800 men and boys of the town by the German occupation forces on October 21, 1941, during World War II. Among the dead were hundreds of high school students.
Monuments within the park include the monument to the murdered schoolchildren and their teachers by sculptor Miodrag Živković; the "Monument of pain and defiance" by sculptor Ante Gržetić; the "One hundred for one" monument by Nandor Glid; the "Resistance and Freedom" monument by Gržetić; and the Shoeshiners monument by architect Nebojša Delja. The complex also contains the Monument to the Slovaks killed during the World War I and the old World War I military cemetery with a Monument to Serbian soldier.
The 21 October Museum designed by architect Ivan Antić is located at the site of the massacre.Picture gallery
