Staro sajmište: mesto sećanja, zaborava i sporenja

Abstract

Knjiga je posvećena posleratnoj sudbini Starog Sajmišta kao mesta sećanja na nacistički logor koji se tamo nalazio od kraja 1941. do sredine 1944. godine. Zbog čega je prvo spomen obeležje na mestu logora Sajmište, najvećeg logora na prostoru okupirane Srbije, podignuto tek sedamdesetih godina prošlog veka? Zbog čega je tokom osamdesetih godina došlo do rasta interesovanja za memorijalizaciju Starog Sajmišta? Šta je bio glavni predmet sećanja - komemoracija na Sajmištu tokom osamdesetih, a šta tokom devedesetih? Zbog čega Staro Sajmište nikada nije adekvatno obeležavano kao mesto Holokausta, i šta nam to govori o sećanju na Holokaust u Srbiji u širem smislu?

This book is dedicated to the post-war fate of Staro Sajmište as a place of remembrance for the Nazi camp that was located there from the end of 1941 to the middle of 1944. Why was the first memorial on the site of the Sajmište camp, the largest camp in occupied Serbia, erected only in the seventies of the last century? Why did the interest in the memorialization of the Old Fairground grow during the 1980s? What was the main object of memory - the commemoration at the Fair during the eighties, and what during the nineties? Why was Staro Sajmište never adequately marked as a place of the Holocaust, and what does that tell us about the memory of the Holocaust in Serbia in a broader sense?