Serbia Remembrance Day is a working public holiday in Serbia observed on October 21st each year.
This holiday is a day of remembrance for the Serbian victims of the second world war. Observed as a memorial to the Kragujevac massacre which took place on October 21st 1941, when 2,700 Serb men and boys were killed in Kragujevac by Nazi German troops.
The massacre was a retaliation to resistance attacks on the Germans. The number of those killed was calculated as a ratio of 100 hostages executed for every German soldier killed and 50 hostages executed for every German soldier wounded. This was a formula devised by Adolf Hitler with the intent of suppressing anti-Nazi resistance in Eastern Europe.
The cruel ratio proved ineffective in stopping Serb resistance and it was abolished in 1943.
| Dates of Remembrance Day in Serbia | |||
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2022 Serbia Fri, Oct 21 Not A Public Holiday 2021 Serbia Thu, Oct 21 Not A Public Holiday 2020 Serbia Wed, Oct 21 Not A Public Holiday 2019 Serbia Mon, Oct 21 Not A Public Holiday 2018 Serbia Sun, Oct 21 Not A Public Holiday | |||
| Summary | |||
| National World War II Victims Remembrance Day |
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