Jasenovac

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Jasenovac
coat of arms
coat of arms
Jasenovac (Croatia)
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Coordinates: 45 ° 16 ′ 9 ″  N , 16 ° 54 ′ 36 ″  E
Basic data
State : Croatian flag Croatia
County : Flag of the Sisak-Moslavina 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. )
Community type : local community
Mayor : Marija Mačković ( HDZ )
Website :

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

Stone flower by Bogdan Bogdanović

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

  1. Vladimir Dedijer : Jasenovac - the Yugoslav Auschwitz and the Vatican . Ahriman Verlag, 1993, ISBN 3-922774-06-7 , p. 140.
  2. jusp-jasenovac.hr: Uštica (English)
  3. 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.

Web links

Commons : Jasenovac  - collection of images, videos and audio files