Memorial Centre Lipa Remembers, War memorial museum in Lipa, Croatia
The Memorial Centre Lipa Remembers is a war memorial museum in the village of Lipa on the Adriatic coast. The exhibition documents a tragic event through photographs, documents, and personal objects belonging to residents who lived in this settlement.
The village of Lipa was attacked and destroyed in 1944 during a military operation when hundreds of residents were killed. This attack was part of a larger military campaign in the region during World War II.
The permanent exhibition covers World War II in the Liburnian Karst, including the villages of Pasjak, Rupa, Šapjane and Brdce, and sets the 30 April 1944 event within the region's cultural and ethnographic heritage from prehistory to the present. It follows the principles of community and homeland museums, working with local residents on research and programmes promoting tolerance and non-violence.
The museum is located in a rural area and is open to visitors from Wednesday through Sunday. Guided tours are available in multiple languages with advance notice to arrange for an interpreter.
Of the roughly 150 perpetrators later described by captured unit member Umberto Scalla — 80 Germans, 40 Italian fascists and 30 Chetniks — 36 were identified after the war, but only the Italian commander Aurelio Piesz was tried and hanged in Trieste in 1945.
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