94-year-old Đorđe Mihailović, like his father and grandfather before him, is a keeper of the WW1 Serbian cemetery-memorial in Thessaloniki, Greece. He’s been guarding the memorial since 1961.
94-year-old Đorđe Mihailović, like his father and grandfather before him, is a keeper of the WW1 Serbian cemetery-memorial in Thessaloniki, Greece. He’s been guarding the memorial since 1961.
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The first keeper of the graveyard was Đorđe’s grandfather, Serbian military volunteer Savo Mihailović, originally from Grbalj, near Boka Kotorska, today’s Montenegro. Savo collected the bodies of his dead friends and comrades, and then protected and guarded the cemetery until his death in 1928. After his death, his remains were also buried in Zeitenlik. Savo was succeeded by his son Đuro Mihailović (Đorđe’s father), who succeeded in preserving the cemetery and relics from Nazi looting during World War II. Đuro died in 1961 and was buried along with his father on Zeitenlik. Duty to guard the cemetery was given to Đorđe, the last male descendant of the Mihailović line.
In 2020 he was awarded Serbian citizenship.
In the summer of 2022 Krstimir Copas was chosen to aid and, eventually, replace Đorđe.
wtf is Serbia trying to do lately? they try so hard to post much more on r/Europe, but they suck Russia’s dick for centuries…