Đorđe Mihailović, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Đorđe Mihailović

Serbian cemetery keeper

Date of Birth: 01-May-1928

Place of Birth: Thessaloniki, Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace, Greece

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Ðorde Mihailovic (Serbian Cyrillic: ????? ??????????; Thesalloniki, 7 May 1928) is a keeper of Serbian Military Cemetery at Zeitenlik, in Thesalloniki.
For more than half a century Ðorde Mihailovic welcomes and sends off the descendants of Serbian soldiers who died in Salonika front during the First World War.
He shows them where the bones of their ancestors are stored. The first keeper of the graveyard was Ðorde's grandfather, Serbian military volunteer Savo Mihailovic, a Serb from Grbalj, near Boka Kotorska.
Savo collected the bodies of his dead friends and comrades, and then protected and guarded the cemetery until his death in 1928.
After his death, his remains were also buried in Zeitenlik.
Savo was succeeded by his son Ðuro Mihailovic (Ðorde's father), who succeeded in preserving the cemetery and relics from Nazi looting during World War II.
Ðuro died in 1961 and was buried along with his father on Zeitenlik.
Duty to guard the cemetery was given to Ðorde, the last male descendant of the Mihailovic line.Today, the keeper, host and curator of the Serbian Military Cemetery at Zeitenlik is Ðorde Mihailovic, Ðuro's son and Savo's grandson, who lives in the keepers house with his wife and daughter.