Massacre of Jews in Rakovica (Belgrade)
Extent and Medium
About 25 items.
Scope and Content
Documents (mainly testimonies) about the mass shooting of 400 male Jews in Rakovica, near Belgrade. The Jews were taken from the Topovske supe camp on October 14, 1941, and shot in Rakovica. In 1944 special SS units exhumed and burned the bodies.
The documents were collected in 1945 by the SCICOS local commission in cooperation with the Federation of the Jewish Communities in Yugoslavia.
Conditions Governing Access
Free access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Reproduction allowed
Publication Note
Some of the documents are available at the following link: http://killingsites.org/rakovica-documents/
Archivist Note
Description by Milovan Pisarri.
Rules and Conventions
EHRI Guidelines for Description v.1.0