For Serbia's small Jewish community, the weekend concert at the Sajmiste camp near the center of Belgrade is the latest indignity to befall a site they say needs to be saved from decades of neglect and deterioration.

Stray dogs wander forlornly around the rundown gray brick barracks that used to house of one of the most notorious World War II Nazi death camps in the Balkans

Soon, the site where some 48,000 Jews, Serbs and Gypsies perished in the 1940s will be throbbing to the rhythms of rock music.

BELGRADE (AFP) - A concert planned at a former World War II concentration camp in Belgrade was cancelled Saturday after protests, Beta news agency reported.

British band Kosheen, which had been due to play there, issued an apology on its website.

Kosheen had been due set play Saturday at the Staro Sajmiste in central Belgrade, but after complaints from the Simon Weisenthal Center and the local authorities they called it off.

A statement posted on the official Kosheen website said the band had been "distressed" to learn about what the venue had been used for in the past.