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Croatian memorial cemetery El Shatt, Egypt

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Suez Governorate, Egypt

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Croatian memorial cemetery El Shatt, Egypt Reviews | Rating 4.1 out of 5 stars (5 reviews)

Croatian memorial cemetery El Shatt, Egypt is located in Suez Governorate, Egypt on Fifth Shyakha, Al Ganayen. Croatian memorial cemetery El Shatt, Egypt is rated 4.1 out of 5 in the category open air museum in Egypt.

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Damir Milisa

In this place, in World War II, he found shelter part of my family. My grandma, my mother and her brothers. They were fed by an army of UK, educated and cared for their health - on this basis, I and all the other offspring are doing a great family today. Thanks to the sand of the Suez for grace ...

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Jaroslav Madacki

Situated in the inhospitable desert of the Sinai peninsula just a few hundred meters away from the Suez Canal and the city of Suez, Egypt is an area called El Shatt, which was the location of a refugee camp during WWII where thousands of Yugoslav residents were evacuated to from 1944 to 1946. As German Army offensives intensified along the Adriatic coast during 1944, Partisan command attempted to evacuate roughly 30,000 at-risk civilians, who were mostly from towns and villages along the Dalmatian zone. Efforts were first attempted to evacuate them to Italy, however, because of a lack of resources in Italy at that time, they were diverted to refugee camps in the El Shatt British-occupied Egypt. A fascinating set of photos from the camp can be seen at this Daily Mail article. While the Yugoslav refugees were indeed safe at this location, over 825 of them succumb to the extreme heat and poor conditions of the camp. A memorial cemetery was established at the camp's site directly after WWII, however, the region of El Shatt became dangerous in the decades after WWII as a result of the Arab–Israeli conflict. After the tensions of that conflict eased in the early 1980s, bronze memorial sculpture was unveiled at the site in 1985. Titled "Mother" or "Mother Dalmatia", the sculpture depicts a 3m tall matronly female figure which was created by Belgrade sculptor Miodrag Živković. This memorial and cemetery complex appears in good condition from the looks of recent photos, however, I was unable to find any reports of any commemorative events being held here any time recently.

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mohamed mano

This place is far but not alot of tourism visit it

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Tonći Kostanić

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