It was created in 1998 with the discovery of the largest mass grave in Croatia after the Second World War. After the organized defense of Vukovar ended and after the aggressor took control of the city, houses, yards and streets were covered with the bodies of the dead. The bodies were shipped outside the city and buried in a pit near the city cemetery. At the end of the peaceful reintegration in 1998, 938 bodies were exhumed from there, and today there are 938 white marble crosses, one in memory of each victim, on the site of the mass grave. Around the site of the mass grave lies the Memorial Cemetery, divided into alleys where fallen veterans, civilian victims, dead Croatian war invalids and their family members found eternal peace. In the central part of the cemetery, on August 5, 2000, a monument was erected by Mrs. Đurđa Ostoja. The monument is made of patinated bronze, it is four meters high, and in the center is an "air" cross and an eternal flame.