8/22/2019 Banjica Book

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Banjica Concentration Camp – Prisoners

Editor in chief: Branka Prpa, PhD

Editors: archivist consultants Evica Micković and Milena RadojčićIntroduction study: Prof. Dr Ljubodrag Dimić, Prof. Dr Milan Ristović

Graphical design: Dragana Lacmanović

One in a series of books of Historical Archives of Belgrade, containing original archival

materials came out of print. Archive materials of the Administration of the City of Belgrade – original evidence books of prisoners of banjica Concentration Camp has been

 printed in two volumes: I volume: 707 pages; II volume: 830 pages, in 1500 copies.

In the period from 1941 – 1944, in the territory of Belgrade existed four concentration

camps. Most of the information is kept for the Camp of Banjica. Camp administrationkept the evidence of arrived prisoners, in eight books kept in the Archives, containing

 personal data of prisoners of Banjica Concentration Camp. It's numbered data of  prisoner’s: name and family name, occupation, date and place of birth, parents name,

marital status, address and residence, date of arriving and of whom were brought,

information of theirs further movement.

Arhival documents are published in accordance with all methodological demands. Book 

also includes critical notes, which contributes giving the extra explanation, detailedascertained through researches of archive materials of funds kept in the Archives:

Fund of the Administration of the City of Belgrade – Special Police Department, Fund of 

the Gestapo, than collection of memoirs and archival documents. The Books are followed by registers – alphabetical and geographical, so the explications of acronyms andunknown terms, sources of used literature. Photographs of the camp, German occupant

and Serbian collaboracionist authority, camp administration, prisoners, scaffold,

exhumation and photos of victims funerals made this edition special.

Most of the photographs were given to the public for the first time. The publication

consists of introduction study which analyses idea of camp as “laboratory of totalitarianregimes” and historical point of view of expanding this idea among the camps situated

across the occupied Serbia, giving the statistic overview of national, gender, age, social

and professional structure of prisoners.

So abundant material provides to researchers possibility to “read” this part of history of 

the World War II in a methodologically enriched way, which took place on our land and

to place it in time boundaries. Availability to this historical source implies us to think over the destiny of every victim of one dehumanized criminal system.

Price: 3,800.00 RSD