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Wednesday, 27 February 2019. PDF Print E-mail
Oslo: A book about the suffering of Yugoslav prisoners-of-war in Norway
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alt"The Road Sign", a novel on the Second World War by journalist Sasa Dimitrijevic, was presented at an event hosted by the Serbian Embassy on the occasion of the Statehood Day of Serbia, on the premises of the "Shomansforening" Association, on 13 February.

The book provides detailed information on the sites of terrible suffering of Yugoslav prisoners, who were deported to labour and Nazi camps in occupied Norway in WWII.

The author himself, who was decorated with the Order of St. Olav, the highest Norwegian recognition, has been a correspondent from Oslo for over forty years and is one of the founders of the Association of Serbian and Norwegian Friendship, in the 60s of the last century.

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Members of the Oslo Opera, Ivana Milasinovic, Tatjana Stanisavljevic and Stevo Krajinovic, who, to the accompaniment of pianist Milan Petrovic, performed the Norwegian and Serbian anthems and the song "This is Serbia", were also presented at the reception. Ms. Srna Boskovic, a twelve-year-old student of the Serbian Supplementary School and a member of the Serbian Children's Choir sang the ethno song "Burble the Water Burbled".