A festival is now celebrating him. Slobodan Lala Berberski was born on October 20, 1919 in Bečkerek, today’s Zrenjanin, where he completed elementary and high school. He began studying law, but as a member of the Communist Youth League of Yugoslavia, he was arrested in 1941. In 1941, he joined the People’s Liberation War of the people of Yugoslavia. He was a Romani writer and the first president of the World Roma Organization bweing elected as the first president of the World Roma Organization in the famous 1971 london meeting.

• Festival romske kulture – „Slobodan Lala Berberski“. .In: Vojvodjanski. 26.05.2026. https://www.vojvodjanski.com/rtvsantos/kultura/2026/05/26/festival-romske-kulture-slobodan-lala-berberski