October in Kragujevac Memorial Park ( , Спомен-парк „ Крагујевачки октобар " ) , also known as Šumarice Memorial Park ( '' Memorijalni park Šumarice '' , Меморијални парк Шумарице ) , is the site near Kragujevac , Serbia of the execution of an estimated 2,800 men and boys of the town by the German occupation forces on October 21 , 1941 , during World War II ( Kragujevac massacre ) . According to noted historian Philip J. Cohen , " All males from the town between the ages of sixteen and sixty were assembled and the victims -- including high school students -- were selected from among them . " Monuments within the park include the monument to the murdered schoolchildren and their teachers ( the " Interrupted Flight " monument ) by sculptor Miodrag Živković ; the " Monument of pain and defiance " by sculptor Ante Gržetić ; the " One hundred for one " monument by Nandor Glid ; the " Resistance and Freedom " monument by Gržetić ; and the Shoeshiners monument ( " Crystal Flower " ) by architect Nebojša Delja . The complex also contains the Monument to the Slovaks killed during the World War I and the old World War I military cemetery with a Monument to Serbian soldier
Kragujevac massacre
Kragujevac massacre
Šumarice Memorial Park