A long column of fighters in mismatched jackets, caps and civilian coats files down a city street with rifles slung over the shoulder, passing a building with a row of arched Gothic windows and a rose window that suggests a church front. A woman with two children walks alongside the column on the right, and a boy in a buttoned coat stands watching from the foreground. No two fighters wear a matching uniform, giving the column an irregular, partisan look rather than that of a regular army unit.
About this place
The main square of Novi Sad, laid out as the town took shape in the 18th century. Under Austria-Hungary it bore the name of Emperor Franz Joseph; it became Liberation Square after 1918 and Liberty Square after the Second World War. The neo-Renaissance Town Hall (1893-1895) and the neo-Gothic Name of Mary Church (1893-1894, with a 72-metre tower) face each other across it, both designed by architect György Molnár. The Tanurdžić Palace on the square followed in 1933. The seven-metre bronze monument to Svetozar Miletić by Ivan Meštrović was erected in 1939, hidden during the wartime occupation, and returned to the square in late 1944.
- Date
- 23 October 1944
- Coordinates
- 45.25512, 19.84502
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 610 × 342 px
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