Jazovka
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 Jazovka Cave |
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| Location: | Sošice , Croatia | |
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45 ° 45 '23.7 " N , 15 ° 23' 23.7" E | |
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| Type: | Shaft cave | |
| Show cave since: | No | |
Jazovka is a vertical karst cave near the village of Sošice in the mountainous region of Žumberak (Eng. Sickle Mountains ) in Croatia .
In the Jazovka Cave there are several thousand bodies of victims of World War II and the post-war period. The majority were soldiers from the Independent State of Croatia and Croatian civilians. After the Battle of Krašić in 1943, the cave was used by the local Tito partisans to make the corpses of killed enemy soldiers disappear. After the end of the war, captured soldiers and civilians - including many who were extradited to Bleiburg in May 1945 - were brought to the edge of the cave, shot and thrown into the cave. Many of the murdered were brought in from hospitals as wounded. The victims also included religious and nurses as well as other medical staff and children.
The mass grave was known to local residents, but it could only be examined after Croatia's independence in 1990. Since then, the cave entrance has served as a place of pilgrimage every year on June 22nd. The pilgrimages are organized by the Catholic Church in Croatia . In July 2020, the Croatian Ministry of Defense carried out and completed the exhumation of a total of 814 victims.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Dunja Rihtman Augustin: A National Ethnology. Its Concepts and its Ethnologists. Ethnologia Europea 26.2 (1996), p. 99.
- ↑ a b c Johann Georg Reissmüller (1992): The war on our doorstep. Background to the Croatian tragedy. P. 121.
- ↑ Josip Jurčević on Jazovka (June 22, 2008)
- ↑ Katolici: Molitva na Jazovki ( Memento from July 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ (accessed on July 24, 2020)