Menorah in Flames

Menorah in Flames, also known as the Monument to Jewish Victims of Nazi Genocide in Belgrade and Serbia, is a Holocaust memorial in Belgrade, Serbia. Designed by sculptor and Holocaust survivor Nandor Glid, it was unveiled on 21 October 1990 on the Danube riverbank in the Dorćol neighbourhood, the historic Jewish quarter of the city.

Photo: Nandor Glid, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Type: Memorial
Description: holocaust memorial in Belgrade
Also known as: “Menora u plamenu” and “Менора у пламену”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Belgrade Zoo and Belgrade Fortress.

Belgrade Zoo

Zoo

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Beo zoo vrt, also known as Vrt dobre nade, is a publicly owned zoo in Belgrade, Serbia. Established on 12 July 1936, it situated in the historic Kalemegdan Park. Belgrade Zoo is situated 580 metres southwest of Menorah in Flames.

Belgrade Fortress

Castle

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The Belgrade Fortress is a cultural monument in Belgrade, Serbia in the municipality of Stari Grad. It consists of the old citadel and Kalemegdan Park on the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers. Belgrade Fortress is situated 1 km southwest of Menorah in Flames.

Kalemegdan

Park

Photo: Laessig, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Kalemegdan Park, or simply Kalemegdan is the largest park and the most important historical monument in Belgrade. It is located on a 125-metre-high cliff, at the junction of the River Sava and the Danube. Kalemegdan is situated 1 km southwest of Menorah in Flames.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dorćol and Mika Alas.

Dorćol

Neighborhood

Photo: Lumen roma, CC BY 3.0.

Dorćol is an affluent urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Stari Grad. Located along the right bank of the Danube, Dorćol is the oldest surviving neighborhood in Belgrade.

Mika Alas

Neighborhood

Mika Alas is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Palilula.

Stari Grad

Suburb

Photo: Wikimedia, GFDL.

Belgrade is the capital of the Republic of Serbia. It stands at the confluence of the Danube and Sava rivers, where the rolling Pannonian Plain fetches up against the rugged Balkan peninsula, and in 2022 had a population of 1.2 million, about a fifth of Serbia's total.

Menorah in Flames

Categories: monument and historic site
Location: Opština Beograd-Stari Grad, Belgrade, Central Serbia, Serbia, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude

44.83045° or 44° 49′ 50″ north

Longitude

20.45741° or 20° 27′ 27″ east

Inception

1990

Open location code

8GP2RFJ4+5X

OpenStreetMap ID

node 1973783610

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=memorial

Wikidata ID

Q110045946

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In Other Languages

From German to Serbian—“Menorah in Flames” goes by many names.

German: “Menora in Flammen”
German: “Menora u plamenu”
German: “Menorah in Flames”
German: “Менора у пламену”
Greek: “Menora u plamenu”
Greek: “Menorah in Flames”
Greek: “Менора у пламену”
Serbian: “Menora u plamenu”
Serbian: “Менора у пламену”
Serbian: “Споменик „Менора у пламену””

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