Valley of the Graves, Dotrščina Memorial Park
Location: Zagreb, Croatia
Completed: 1980s
Sculptor: Vojin Bakić
Genre: Spomenik, Socialist monument, former Yugoslavia
Many of the victims associated with the Shooting of Hostages monument in the centre of Zagreb were executed in the Dotrščina forest on the outskirts of the city. Between 1941 and 1945 in the region of 7,000 anti-fascists, Roma and Jews were murdered by Ustasha and German forces and a handful of spomeniks in various locations throughout the forest commemorate the atrocities that took place.
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