Staro Sajmište

Aleksandar Vucic inaugurated the new plaque on Thursday near the banks of the River Sava, close to the location of the Staro Sajmiste (Old Trade Fair) concentration camp, which operated during World War II.

One hundred and fifty-nine out of 250 MPs in the Serbian parliament voted on Monday for the establishment of a memorial centre at the Staro Sajmiste (Old Trade Fair) site to remember those killed at the Nazi concentration camp in occupied Belgrade during World War II.

Aleksandar Vucic has commented on media reports that an office of his ruling SNS party office had been open at the location of the Staro Sajmiste camp.

Speaking in Davos on Friday, the Serbian president said he "did not know what this was about" and had "not seen it."

"If anyone has done anything wrong, we will apologize," Vucic said.

BELGRADE - Power-wielders are attempting to rewrite history, but Serbia must not let that happen, President Tomislav Nikolic said Friday as Serbia marked the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

International Holocaust Remembrance Day was marked in Serbia with a central state ceremony held at the Staro Sajmiste memorial in Belgrade.

Power wielders are attempting to rewrite history, but Serbia must not let that happen, President Tomislav Nikolic as he addressed the ceremony.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic on Thursday received the director of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, Efraim Zuroff, Archbishop John of Pakrac and Slavonia of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) and Ruta Vaganaite, a Lithuanian writer and author of the book Our People.

BELGRADE - Serbia on Wednesday marks the national Day of Remembrance for the victims of the Holocaust, genocide and other fascist crimes in World War II, by laying wreaths and paying tribute to the victims of WWII death camp Staro Sajmiste in Belgrade.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic said on Tuesday at a commemoration ceremony marking January 27, the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, that the Holocaust is the most shameful and hideous crime in entire human history, underscoring that Serbia will never forget the crimes that were committed against its own citizens and the friendly Jewish people.

President: Holocaust most shameful crime in history

BELGRADE -- Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic said on Tuesday that the Holocaust was the most shameful and hideous crime in the entire human history.

BELGRADE - The construction of the Staro Sajmiste memorial complex in Belgrade will begin next year, it has been announced at the constitutive session of the city commission to build the complex on the site of the former concentration camp that existed during the Nazi occupation.