On 1 October 1944, about 2.500 prisoners from Bor had to take rest nearby floodplains on the route between Sefkerin and Opovo. Members of paramilitary Deutsche Mannschaft killed there 22 of them by hitting because they tried to get river water for drinking despite the command to walk on. An interviewed eyewitness indirectly named this event only. He did not mention the real place of action, moved the event to Hungary, gave a later date, but described this event with the wordwatermelons in his synopsis. On 30 October 1944, 101 Germans were killed by shooting near the floodplains next to the road to Opovo by Special commands of Yugoslav Partisans. The number had a symbolic meaning. 100 persons were representative for national socialist German minority of Danube Swabians, 1 for an escaped First-rate official. A contemporary witness of Danube Swabian publication in Germany called that area airfield, and paraphrased the Germans way to heaven, mentioned nothing about the prisoners from Bor, but included them into the number of victims. According to that report, the parson of Glogonj was also shot and killed in the village. However, an old man was tortured and publicly hanged to the tower of Saint Anne Church on 5 October 1944. On the same day, four German women were found dead near the banks of the Tamiš River, repeatedly raped by First-rate members of the Soviet Red Army at the municipal office during the night from 4 to 5 October 1944.
Historical Population
1961: 3,230
1971: 3,257
1981: 3,605
1991: 3,475
2002: 3,178
Notable Citizens
Adolf Schagar, Julius Jelić and Béla Bazarabić, young members of Theresian Military Academy since 1836, 1878 and 1884.
Mathias Benrád and Nikola Zseravić, exhibitors of agricultural products at the World Exposition of 1873.
Lajos Szekrényi, translator of some works by Karl May into Hungarian.
Franz Lang became appointed leader of the national socialist local echelon Deutsche Mannschaft of regional Einsatzstaffel of Schwäbisch-Deutscher Kulturbund in 1936.
Franz Lischitz, member of the SS Freiwilligen Gebirgsjäger DivisionPrinz Eugen, strictly refused his first participation in a reprisal against civilians in the area around Sarajevo. He was executioned by shooting because of his command denial on 29 September 1943. Lischitz was selected for the German firing squad to finally prove his courage instead of just keeping horses and taking care of the food. The skinny and short man was treated like a laughing stock by his officer and some camerades again and again, and his childless wife has been depreciated and devalued by some German villagers since this event. Two of his best friends from Jabuka had also refused the command that day, one of whom was the brother of his wife.
