Cemetery keepers.2C the Mihailovi.C4.87 family Zeitenlik

Đorđe mihailović in front of cenotaph

the first keeper of graveyard savo mihailović, head of group responsible exhumation of serbian soldiers , transfer area of future military cemetery. mihailović, serb grbalj, collected bodies of dead friends , comrades, , protected , guarded cemetery until death in 1928. lived in house built him , family, inside cemetery proper. after death, remains buried in zeitenlik. succeeded son Đuro mihailović, succeeded in preserving cemetery , relics nazi looting during world war ii. Đuro died in 1961 , buried along father on zeitenlik.

today, keeper, host , curator of serbian military cemetery @ zeitenlik Đorđe mihailović, Đuro s son , savo s grandson, lives in keeper s house wife , daughter. although new burials @ zeitinlik forbidden, special decree issued allows Đorđe last person buried here when dies.