Jewish Historical Museum

Belgrade


Housed in a 1928 neo-Romanesque building of the Jewish Community of Belgrade, the permanent exhibition of this museum opened in 1969 and covers the history, lifestyle, culture and art of Jews across former Yugoslavia, from their earliest presence in the Balkans in the Roman era until the Holocaust during the Nazi occupation in WWII.


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