Jasenovac
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State : | Croatia | |
County : | Sisak-Moslavina | |
Height : | 95 m. i. J. | |
Residents : | 1,997 (2011) | |
Telephone code : | (+385) 044 | |
Postal code : | 44 324 | |
License plate : | KT | |
Structure and administration (status: 2013, cf. ) |
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Community type : | local community | |
Mayor : | Marija Mačković ( HDZ ) | |
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Jasenovac is a village in the municipality of the same name in central Croatia . The community has 1997 inhabitants (status: 2011).
geography
Jasenovac is located in the south of the Sisak-Moslavina County in the immediate vicinity of the confluence of the Una and Save rivers . Since the Strug and Lonja rivers flowed into the Sava from the east side of the large Jasenovac basin , the whole region was hit by floods every spring and autumn .
history
Before the Second World War , Jasenovac was a large and well-developed town with a predominantly Serbian population. There were some industrial companies there even before the war , e.g. As the Brickyard Ciglara and the small Eisenwarenfabrik Loncara . During the Second World War, Jasenovac was home to the largest concentration camp in south-eastern Europe , which was run by the Croatian Ustasha , the Jasenovac concentration camp . A memorial cemetery with a monument in the shape of a flower (Serbo-Croatian cvijet or cvet ) designed by the architect Bogdan Bogdanović was built on the site of the former camp .
In the nearby village of Uštica , there was also the Croatian Uštica concentration camp between 1942 and 1945 , a concentration camp specially set up for Roma , which was given the name "Gypsy camp ".
school
There is an eight-grade elementary school in Jasenovac ( Osnovna Skola Jasenovac ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Vladimir Dedijer : Jasenovac - the Yugoslav Auschwitz and the Vatican . Ahriman Verlag, 1993, ISBN 3-922774-06-7 , p. 140.
- ↑ jusp-jasenovac.hr: Uštica (English)
- ↑ Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (ed.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 9: Labor education camps, ghettos, youth protection camps, police detention camps, special camps, gypsy camps, forced labor camps. CH Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-57238-8 , p. 327.