On February 12, 1942, the inmates detained the Germans and wires, and out of 147 citizens, communists, Jews, Chetniks and others, 105 of them were succeeded, and 42 inmates left their lives on camp wires. This breakthrough then echoed, and is remembered as the first collective resistance in such casamates in the enslaved Europe. German retaliation was terrible, as about 1,000 people were shot dead.
On the first floor of the Logora, which was closed for visitors in the previous years, the National Museum from Nis has arranged a new museum setting. Through three thematically decorated rooms in the left wing of the first floor of the memorial complex „12. February „, visitors can now see a new permanent setting.
The new item contains personal items and documents of prisoners, as well as children’s toys and one cradle that testifies to the accident and slavery through which thousands of citizens passed through the Second World War.
In the first room on the first floor, the setting for the suffering of the Jews in Nis was set, then in the second room, the setting dedicated to the activities of the Red Cross organization, and in the third, the largest room, an attitude dedicated to the daily lives of prisoners physically and mentally destroyed here and which From here, the Germans led to shooting from here.
Memorial camp complex „12. February „is open to visitors every day, except Monday, from 10 am to 4 pm.
LOGOR ON THE RED CROSS
After the April disaster and the entry of the Germans into Nis, April 9, 1941, hostage arrests began.
Са ширењем устанка и јачањем отпора указала се потреба Немаца за стварањем једног затвора у коме би били сконцентрисани сви затвореници. Због тога је Гестапо формирао логор Црвени крст.
Логор се налазио на периферији града, у непосредној близини Фабрике дувана и Железничке станице Црвени крст (па је и сам логор незванично по њој назван Логор на Црвеном крсту).
Главна логорска зграда са помоћним објектима подигнута је 1930. године и до рата је служила као војни магацин. Ту своју функцију задржала је до септембарских дана 1941.године када су је Немци опљачкали и адаптирали за концентрациони логор. Логор се током рата стално пунио и празнио. Било је дана када је било преко 1.500 људи у њему.
According to incomplete information, as the occupier destroyed all compromising material, over 35,000 people went through the camp, of which more than 10,000 were shot at the Bubanj near Nis.
Đorđe Bojanic, prof. history
