Five young women in period one-piece swimsuits sit together on the sand, hair bobbed in the fashion of the late 1920s, one wrapped in a chevron-patterned towel, another in a beaded necklace. A sixth figure leans into the frame at the right edge, grinning. Other bathers and trees line the riverbank behind the group, the Danube itself just visible through the trunks. A candid snapshot rather than a studio sitting, cropped tight on the group rather than the strand.
About this place
Štrand is the city beach of Novi Sad, on the Danube near the Freedom Bridge, and its name comes straight from the German word Strand. It opened officially in 1911 on a sandbar called Poloj that had served to water livestock and then held Stengl's bathing place, with separate sections for men and women; an organised lifeguard and swimming instruction service followed in 1912. The beach runs 700 metres and covers about 14 hectares, half sand and half green, with more than 830 cabins and over 400 trees, and it draws more than a million visitors between May and September. During the raid of January 1942, Hungarian forces brought arrested Serbs and Jews to the entrance of Štrand and killed them at the water's edge, pushing the bodies under the Danube ice.
- Date
- 1930
- Coordinates
- 45.23631, 19.84654
- Source
- Fortepan
- Credit
- Fortepan / Hajdu András
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Size
- 2179 × 1370 px
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