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The incident you're referring to is the Novi Sad Raid (Serbian: Racija u Novom Sadu), which took place in January 1942, during World War II, when Hungarian occupation forces massacred thousands of civilians—primarily Serbs, Jews, and Roma—in Vojvodina, especially in Novi Sad, Bečej, Čurug, and other areas along the Danube and Tisa rivers.
Over the course of several days in January 1942, Hungarian gendarmerie and army units carried out a systematic roundup of civilians.
People were accused of supporting partisans (anti-Axis resistance), though most victims were innocent civilians.
Many were executed en masse.
Bodies were often thrown under the ice of the frozen Danube, especially in Novi Sad, to conceal the killings.
The Danube was frozen during the raid, and holes were cut into the ice to dispose of bodies. It was a deliberate method of concealment.
In some cases, people were shot directly over the ice holes, so they would fall in and disappear immediately.
In other instances, the bodies were dumped after being executed elsewhere.
After the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in 1941, Hungary annexed parts of Vojvodina, which had large Serbian populations.
The raid was an attempt to suppress partisan resistance and intimidate the local population.
It was part of broader ethnic cleansing policies carried out by Axis collaborators.
After the war, the event was classified as a war crime.
Several Hungarian officers were later tried and convicted (some in absentia).
Hungary officially apologized decades later; the Hungarian parliament annulled the 1941 decrees that had been used to justify the occupation.
In 2013, Hungarian President János Áder formally apologized before the Serbian Parliament.
Around 3,800 people were killed in total across all affected regions.
In Novi Sad alone, over 1,200 people—including many women and children—were killed over just three days (Jan 21–23, 1942).
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