produced and designed by CHRE, using project funds, and was co-funded to its present, (larger than originally planned form), by the generous help from the Historical Archives of Belgrade and the Secretariat for Culture of the City of Belgrade. The catalogue was produced in Serbian language, on 96 pages, 23 x 32 cm, in color, soft-cover. It has accompanied the exhibition on all four venues and two project presentations, and was diseminated free of charge to a wide range of audiences, from professionals and decisionmakers, to university students and pupils on school visits.
Exhibition opening, Belgrade, April 20th, 2016 Exhibition opening was the first public event of “Escalating Into Holocaust - From execution squads to the gas van of the concentration camp at Sajmište: Two defining phases of the Holocaust in Serbia” project. On Wednesday 20 April 2016 at the Historical Archives of Belgrade, in the presence of many prominent guests and visitors, exhibition “October 1941” was opened. Authors of the exhibition are Dr Milovan Pisarri and Nikola Radić Lucati from Center for Holocaust Research and Education (CHRE) from Belgrade. Through archival materials and newspaper clips, 32 exhibition boards presents each day of October 1941, a month in which Holocaust and genocide based on racist laws escalated against Jews and Roma, and mass executions of Serbian civilians began in retaliation for the uprising. This led to the final phase of Holocaust in Serbia - the transformation of the camps for hostages in Serbia into fully - fledged death camps through systematic execution of the Jewish women and children detained in the Sajmište camp, in the gassing van, euphemistically named “Eintlasungwagen” (de-lousing truck). A press conference was organized before the exhibition opening, with a goal to present the project Escalating into Holocaust and upcoming activities. Participants of the press conference were Mr Dragan Gačić, project director and director of the Historical Archives of Belgrade, Mr Vladan Vukosavljević, Secretary of the Secretariat of Culture of the City of Belgrade, Dr Milovan Pisarri, co-author of the
H.E. Yossef Levi, Israeli ambassador and H.E. Axel Dittmann, German ambassador to Serbia.