Donja Gradina
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Donja Gradina Доња Градина |
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| State : | Bosnia and Herzegovina | ||
| Entity : | Republika Srpska | ||
| Municipality : | Kozarska Dubica | ||
| Coordinates : | 45 ° 16 ' N , 16 ° 56' E | ||
| Height : | 92 m. i. J. | ||
| Residents : | 167 (2013) | ||
Donja Gradina is a village in the far north of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Republika Srpska part of the country , right at the confluence of the Una and the Save , which form the border with Croatia here . Donja Gradina is the northernmost settlement in Bosnia.
memorial
From 1941 to 1945, Donja Gradina was the execution area of the Jasenovac concentration camp on the other side of the Sava River . Today there is a memorial site with a memorial site on a size of approximately 117 hectares, 1/8 of the total area of the Jasenovac concentration camp. There are numerous hollows with sunken mass graves . Nine grave fields with 105 mass graves have been discovered so far. According to a probe by the Institute for Agricultural Soil Science Sarajevo in 1991, there are 20 more mass graves. The area of the graves covers more than 11 hectares, the size of the grave fields 66 hectares. This makes the grave site the largest grave field in Europe.
There was also a soap production facility made from the remains of murdered victims. A soap kettle is on the site, three of the former 12 kettles have been preserved. A separator and a separator for water, caustic soda and the bodies of the victims have also been preserved. A commemoration takes place on the Sunday after the day of commemoration of the liberation of Jasenovac by the Yugoslav People's Liberation Army on April 22nd.
Web links
- Two kinds of memories -Jasenovac- The Croatian Auschwitz , by Eberhard Rondholz , feature of Deutschlandfunk .