City Name Address Year unveiled Year renovated Image Description
Novi Kneževac Memorial plaque at the site where the synagogue once stood Zanatlijska Street 1998 The memorial plaque on the place where the synagogue once stood was unveiled in 1998. On the top is the inscription in Hebrew: 'לעתיד יש עבר ארוך'- The future has a long past. The rest of the inscription is in Serbian, recalls that on this place stood a synagogue built in 1913 and demolished in 1948, and commemorates the deportation of Jews on August 14, 1941: 'Ovo obeležje neka je uspomena na nevino stradale Jevreje Novog Kneževca' – Let this monument keep the memory of the innocent victims of Jewish descent from Novi Kneževac'. On the night of 14/15 August 1941 almost all Banat Jews, about four thousand, were arrested, and after a few days they were transferred to concentration camps in Belgrade. Below the dedication, are inscribed the names of the victims, 64 of them.
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