The site is dedicated to 455 individuals who were executed by the authorities of the Independent State of Croatia during the World War II in Yugoslavia.

[1] Most of the victims at the Dudik were Yugoslav Partisan and ethnic Serbs from modern day Croatia and from Inđija, Stara Pazova, Ruma, Šid, Sremska Mitrovica and Irig in Serbia who were target of persecution of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia.

[1] The monument at the Dudik Memorial Park, built from 1978 to 1980, is designed by Bogdan Bogdanović, for which he won the International Piranesi Award.

[2] The Dudik Memorial Park was devastated during the Croatian War of Independence, and in the post-war years was a mined area.

[1] Prior to its reconstruction, Vukovar town authorities used it as football field causing criticism among antifascist and Serb minority organizations.