English: This memorial sculpture located in Kragujevac, Serbia at the Šumarice Memorial Park, officially titled 'Monument to Executed Students' (aka: 'Interrupted Flight'), is dedicated to the hundreds of children murdered here by German soldiers on October 21st, 1941.

One way to understand the 'Interrupted Flight' monument is as a highly stylized vision of a delicate hopeful white bird struggling in flight just as it takes off from the ground, but faltering due to a broken wing (represented in the sculpture by the triangular shape protruding from one of the wings). This imagery symbolizes the lost innocence of youth by the eager hopeful children who were tragically cut down by senseless violence before they could truly take "flight" as young people. Meanwhile, within the 'wings' of the sculpture, faint suspended impressions of those children who were slain here can be seen staring out, almost as if they were bidding us farewell as they float up into the heavens.

Another facet behind the symbolism of the "V" shape of the monument is it operating as a reference to the name of the Kragujevac Gymnasium school class who was massacred at this site, which was "V3" class (5th grade, 3rd form).

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