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The grandchildren of Dr. Aleksandar Markovic (1878-1961), the first Serbian radiologist, had 400 square meters returned in Slavija by decision of the Restitution Agency. It is a prestigious plot in Ulica prote Mateje 3, where Markovic’s house used to be, and today there is a large parking lot. The request for the return of the property was submitted by the legal heirs of Dr. Markovic who live in South Africa and Australia.
“This is a kind of correction of historical injustice,” Ivana Milošević, an adviser to the Restitution Agency, told Tanjug.
As a military captain, Dr. Aleksandar Markovic headed the department of the military hospital, he was a representative of the cultural, scientific and military elite of that time, and Milosevic claims that he and his family lived a tragic fate.
– His wife, who was Jewish, died in the Staro Sajmište camp. Dr. Markovic was captured in 1941 and was in captivity in Italy, Ivana Milosevic said.
In the last years of 1944, he managed, says an adviser to the Restitution Agency, to escape the camp and join the allies, and as a member of the Red Cross and other international health organizations, he helped the wounded and the army in the Second World War.
– Dr. Markovic participated in the Balkan wars and World War I, the organizer of medical care in Corfu – notes Milosevic.
The four areas that were returned to Dr. Markovic’s heirs are just one of the many parcels in Slavija between Belgrade and Prote Mateja street. In that place were the “Cvetković” pharmacy, Anton Šuster’s body shop and the “Slavija” cinema, which was demolished in 1991. After the Second World War, the “Slavija” cinema was moved to a building that was erected in 1888 for the Scotsman Francis Harford Mackenzie, a humanist and philanthropist who bought a large property in Belgrade, the main one from Simić.
The building called “Hall of Peace” was ceremonially inaugurated in 1889. The Social Democratic Party bought the building in 1910, when it became a center for organizing the labor movement in which the ideas of social democracy were developed. At the beginning of the 30s it was converted into an inn and shortly afterwards the “Slavija” cinema was located there, according to the architect Aleksandra Banović in the book “Belgrade 1930-2009”.
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