Gradska opstina Palilula

By laying wreaths at the Monument to Liberators at King Milan Square in the city center and in the Memorial park complex Bubanj, 73 years were marked and remembered since the liberation of Nis in the Second World War.

Members of the City of Nis delegation, headed by the Mayor and the President of the City Assembly, representatives of the Serbian Armed Forces, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Federation of Fighters, the Nisava District, the Association for the Conservation of Traditions of the Liberation Wars of Serbia and the Serbian-Russian Humanitarian Center, laid wreaths at the Monument to the Liberators. On behalf of Palilula Municipality, the wreath was laid by Aleksandar Ždrale, President of Palilula Municipality.

Representatives of the City, the Army of Serbia, the Veterans’ Association, the City Municipality of Palilula, the Nisava District, the Serbian-Russian Humanitarian Center and the Association for the Conservation of Traditions of the Liberation Wars of Serbia paid tribute to the victims at Memorial Park “Bubanj” where fascists shot at more than 10.000 citizens, brought from the Red Cross death camp.

The struggle for the liberation of Nis in the Second World War, the so-called “Nis operation” started on October 8, 1944 at 8 am. The city of Niš was freed on October 14, 1944, when the 22nd Division of the people’s Liberation Movement entered the city and attacked German troops.