Dudik Memorial Park

In 1945, the mortal remains of 384 victims were exhumed and placed in the common ossuary dedicated to the victims of Dudik, fallen soldiers of the 5th Vojvodina Brigade of the 36th Vojvodina Division and the Red Army soldiers who fought within the Vukovar area.[1] Most of the victims at the Dudik were Yugoslav Partisan and ethnic Serbs from modern day Croatia and from Inđija, Stara Pazova, Ruma, Šid, Sremska Mitrovica and Irig in Serbia who were target of persecution of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia.[1]

In 1973, the park was classified as a monument of cultural importance.[1] The monument at the Dudik Memorial Park, built from 1978 to 1980, is designed by Bogdan Bogdanović, for which he won the International Piranesi Award.[2]

The Dudik Memorial Park was devastated during the Croatian War of Independence, and in the post-war years was a mined area.[1] Prior to its reconstruction, Vukovar town authorities used it as football field causing criticism among antifascist and Serb minority organizations.[1] Monuments and park reconstruction began in 2015[3] and was completed in 2016.

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