On the occasion of May 9 - Victory Day, earlier this year, and after five years of preparations and extensive research, a monument was unveiled with the names of the Jews of Novi Sad who died in the resistance against fascism in 1941-1945. It is located in the courtyard of the Novi Sad synagogue as a witness that members of the Novi Sad Jewish community were participants in the resistance.
The initiative to erect the monument came from Pavle Katić, a survivor of the Dachau concentrationcamp and a long-time member of the International Dachau Committee.
He invested enormous effort and a lot of time to collect data by consulting the archives. The result of that work is a beautiful printed edition in Serbian translated into English. The monument and edition are the only public material evidence and recognition of those heroes.
The monument was donated by the stonemason, and the other costs were borne by the Jewish Community of Novi Sad
The story of Pavle Katić's er experiences in Dachau can be found here.
