Soldiers in steel helmets and long greatcoats stand along a row of single-storey houses in deep snow, some bending over the ground, while the bodies of the victims lie on the pavement and out in the roadway and are dragged over the packed snow on low sledges. A sentry with his rifle slung walks towards the camera in the foreground. The houses have ornamented stucco surrounds to their windows and a long shop fascia, and two windows in the wall beyond are bricked up. The photograph records the Raid, the killings in Novi Sad and the surrounding Bačka in January 1942; this copy is a halftone reproduction from a printed page.
About this place
Lebarski sokak, the bread sellers' lane, is the old name of today's Miletićeva street, which runs between Zmaj Jovina and Jovana Subotića in the old core of Novi Sad. It appears under that name on city plans from the middle of the 18th century, taken from the bread sellers who traded in that part of town. Hungarian and German usage translated the name directly, as Kenyér utca and Brodgasse, and postcards of the street carry both forms. After the First World War it was renamed for the Serbian politician Svetozar Miletić, and it briefly bore the name of Lajos Kossuth during the Hungarian occupation of 1941 to 1944.
- Date
- 1942
- Coordinates
- 45.25741, 19.84448
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1039 × 692 px
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