Glogonj (Serbian Cyrillic: Глогоњ, listenⓘ) is a village in Serbia, situated in the South Banat District of the province of Vojvodina.
[9] By the late 1890s and early 1900s, many young men and their families from Glogon, and the neighboring villages, left their homes to migrate to the United States and Canada to start a new life.
[10] After the end of WWI, with the Treaty of Trianon in 1920, Glogon and the surrounding areas of the Banat become part of the newly established Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes with Belgrade as its capital.
Ethnic German men in the Banat region were recruited to join the Wehrmacht or the newly-formed Waffen-SS unit Prinz Eugen.
[14] By mid-October 1944, the Soviet Red Army and Yugoslav Partisans captured Glogon and the surrounding villages during the 'Belgrade Offensive'.
On October 30, 1944, special detachments of the Yugoslav People's Liberation Committee shot 128 residents from Glogon on site.
The surviving ethnic Germans were taken to labor camps in nearby areas, (such as Rudolfsgnad) where most would die of disease, starvation and the cold.
After the wars, ethnic German historians began to visit the Banat areas of their Danube-Swabian ancestors, such as in Glogonj.
In June 2009, historian Anton Nahm, whose ancestors lived in Glogon, along with other political and church leaders, officially rededicated the cemetery and its new chapel.