Memorial for the victims of the concentration camp (Jasenovac)
The memorial for the victims of the concentration camp in Jasenovac ( Croatia ) is a memorial to the victims of the Jasenovac concentration camp, designed by the Yugoslav architect and sculptor Bogdan Bogdanović from 1959 and completed in 1966 . Next to the village of Jasenovac on the bank of the Sava , the Croatian Ustasha built an extermination camp in which tens of thousands of Serbs , Jews , Roma and anti-fascists were imprisoned and executed until 1945 . After the site fell into disrepair by 1959 and at that time all structural remains no longer existed except for a few foundations, Bogdanović decided to redesign the site. The locations of the barracks are symbolically marked by earth craters.
monument
The original plan provided for a system of water channels, earth walls and hills with metal abstract flowers. Bogdanović, however, rejected this plan in favor of a single monument, the so-called Stone Flower and the marking of the barracks with earth craters. The path that leads to the central monument is occupied by the former railway sleepers of the camp's own transport route. The weight of the 24-meter-high flower made of prestressed concrete rests on underground Franki piles , the diverging struts are only used for wind protection and aesthetic considerations. As with other projects, Bogdanović worked with water. When it rains, a circular arrangement of small puddles of water forms in the small crypt under the monument.
In contrast to many other monuments from Yugoslav times, Jasenovac was not desecrated or abandoned during and after the Yugoslav Wars. The memorial will continue to commemorate the prisoner uprising and the liberation separately on the Sunday after Remembrance Day, April 22nd.
Site plan as a relief
Earth craters mark the former barracks
museum
At the entrance of the facility is a museum and archive, which was opened in 1968. It was designed by the architect Peter Vovk . In the 1990s, the holdings were relocated due to the wars in Yugoslavia and the museum was badly damaged. The museum, which has meanwhile been restored, has been in possession of the original holdings again since 2006, but only a small part of the exhibits is shown in favor of multimedia information.
There is a relief by the Yugoslav sculptor Dušan Džamonja on the wall of the museum . He created a similar relief in 1973 for the Museum of the Monument to the Revolution in Kozara .
literature
- Bogdan Bogdanović. Memoria and Utopia in Tito Yugoslavia . Wieser, Klagenfurt, ISBN 978-3-85129-834-5 , p. 70-73 .
Web links
- Stone flower in the Spomenik Database
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Bogdan Bogdanović. Memoria and Utopia in Tito Yugoslavia . Wieser, Klagenfürt, ISBN 978-3-85129-834-5 , p. 70 .