Shootings of the Jews of Šabac and the Kladovo convoy

Šabac, on the Sava, had its own Jewish community when several hundred refugees from Central Europe arrived there, well before the invasion: a convoy that had departed from Vienna and Bratislava bound for Palestine, stranded on the Danube at Kladovo for lack of a ship, then transferred to Šabac where it waited for months. The German occupation sealed the fate of both communities. Following partisan attacks in the region, the occupying army decided on mass reprisals. The men of the town and of the convoy were rounded up in the autumn, led to the meadows near a hamlet on the Sava, and shot at the edge of pits. The women and children of the convoy were sent to the fairground camp near the capital, where they perished the following winter.