Ovcara Memorial Center — Attraction in Vukovar

Visiting Ovčara is an experience that leaves the heart heavy and the soul unsettled. Standing on the ground where so many innocent lives were taken, I felt broken in a way that words cannot fully capture. The silence there is overwhelming - it presses into you, reminding you that this soil holds the memory of unimaginable cruelty and suffering.

It was a hot day, and yet I couldn’t allow myself to complain. Any discomfort I felt was nothing compared to what the victims endured in their final hours - the fear, the pain, the injustice. I walked through that place freely, conscious that their sacrifice made it possible for me to stand there today in peace.

Ovčara is not just a memorial. It is a sacred reminder of how fragile freedom is, and how costly it can be. Leaving, I carried with me deep sorrow, but also a sense of gratitude and responsibility - to remember, to honor, and never to take this hard-won peace...

The bullets cemented into the ground were just annoying to walk on. The room is large, but there's nothing special in it. It's wasted space. And the guy spoke very... Intensively. It's like he focused so much on making a strong impression that he started making sentences that don't make sense. Like, for example: "they (the people that died in the war) are here, but actually aren't." What? My friend and I immediately noticed it and started using it as a joke. The giftshop...

This is the site of one of the greatest atrocities committed by Serbs against wounded Croatians during the Homeland War in 1991. After a months long siege of Vukovar, the city eventually fell to the barbaric Serb invaders. They rounded up over 200 wounded from the hospital, which you should visit first, then took them here, tortured and slaughtered them, before dumping them in a nearby mass grave.

A small, but important place to visit, for whay happened here must never...