The monument to Belgrade's defenders, one of the most important memorials from the First World War in Belgrade because of its specific position at the New Cemetery, is often forgotten and rarely available to the general public.
During the First World War, Belgrade was the first bombed capital, the most demolished and defended city in Europe. In the crypt of the memorials, the bones rest on the bones of 3,529 known and 1,074 unknown heroes. The remains of Serb soldiers from military plots at the New Cemetery, from the graveyard on the Danube Quay and smaller cemeteries in the vicinity of Belgrade, were transferred to it.
The names of those identified were written in a great memorial book to the National Gospel that once stood on a special stand in the central part of the Belgrade Zejtinlika.
At the beginning of the memorial ceremony, immediately after the liberation of Belgrade, in October 1944, the burial of prominent participants of the National Liberation War (NOR), as well as the national heroes of Yugoslavia began.