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Belgrade Death Camp Uproar

Discussion in 'Concentration, Death Camps and Crimes Against Huma' started by GRW, Aug 29, 2013.

  1. GRW

    GRW Pillboxologist WW2|ORG Editor

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    "A former concentration camp in Belgrade – the scene of the murders of thousands of Jews during the Second World War – is set to dismantled and transformed into a shopping centre, in a move that has led to consternation among Jewish groups.

    The Jewish community in Serbia has condemned the construction project at Topovske Supe, arguing it is “morally not right” to build a shopping centre on a site “from where people have been taken to death”.
    “It should be preserved in its authenticity, as a place of remembrance,” Ruben Fuks, the president of the Federation of Jewish communities in Serbia, told The Independent.
    He said that Delta, the company that now owns the land and plans to convert it into the shopping centre, has tried to obtain “moral approval” from the federation, which has instead repeatedly expressed its “moral opposition” to the project. It has no legal power to block it.
    However, some of the impetus in the campaign against the shopping centre development has been lost after it emerged that one of the main contractors behind the project is Israeli architectural group MYS. Its managing director, Ami Moore, expressed his “disbelief” in the face of the controversy, and denied any wrongdoing."
    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/plan-to-transform-former-belgrade-concentration-camp-into-shopping-centre-is-condemned-by-jewish-groups-8790360.html
     
  2. Skipper

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    Will the put a memorial there?
     
  3. Hufflepuff

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    They'd best put a memorial of some type there, or at least make the local populace more aware of the site if possible to prevent further decay.
     

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