A demolished old Yugo car at the former Topovske Šupe camp in 2013. Once the site even served as a paintball arena. Credit: Darko Vojinovic/APIn 1941, some 6,500 Jewish and Roma men were murdered after being held at Topovske Šupe in Belgrade, one of the first camps the German invaders set up with the Jews in mind. Today, the site is crumbling, contested and close-to forgotten05:30 PM • August 04 2026 IDTBELGRADE – On a sweltering afternoon in late July, Belgrade's Autokomanda neighborhood is buzzing with people, cars, buses and trams.Trending NowHow Israel's Elbit Armed the United Arab EmiratesEmigration From Israel Remained at a Record High in 2025, Study FindsA Good Visit to Israel, Tainted by Two Disturbing Incidents at the AirportCould a Jewish Politician Joining an Islamist Party Shake Up Israel's Election?The Ancient City in Israel That Survived by Being ForgottenIn the NewsA Concentration Camp Turned Paintball Arena Is Testing Serbia's Holocaust MemoryNew Bases, Razed Villages: IDF Entrenching Itself Deep Inside Southern LebanonThe Time Has Come to Move Beyond Zionism and Become IsraelisIsraelis Abroad Removed From Voter Rolls Ahead of Upcoming ElectionU.S., Iran Trade Conflicting Claims Over Talks as Hormuz Tensions PersistRemembering and rebuilding two years laterICYMIThis Israeli ultra-Orthodox Feminist Activist Has a Warning for U.S. JewsNetanyahu Says Israel Has 'Special Forces' Ready if He's Arrested on NY VisitTwo Female Israeli Soldiers Die by Suicide as IDF Mental Health Crisis DeepensDozens of IDF Soldiers Desert Sde Teiman Base in Protest of Commander'I Tried, I Got Crushed by AIPAC': Andy Levin Is All-in for El-SayedIt's No Wonder Israelis Want War. Violence Has Become a Source of Joy
A concentration camp turned paintball arena is testing Serbia's Holocaust memory
In 1941, some 6,500 Jewish and Roma men were murdered after being held at Topovske Šupe in Belgrade, one of the first camps the German invaders set up with the Jews in mind. Today, the site is crumbling, contested and close-to forgotten












