Đakovo concentration camp

The concentration camp Đakovo or Djakovo ( Serbo - Croatian Koncentracioni logor Đakovo / Концентрациони логор Ђаково) was a concentration camp in Đakovo in the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) during the Second World War .

The camp took in women and children in particular. It was one of the concentration camps under the rule of the Croatian - fascist Ustasha and was built in December 1941 during the Second World War in Đakovo. In Đakovo concentration camp, women, mainly Jews and Serbs , and their children were interned from assembly points in Sarajevo and other places in Bosnia and Slavonia . On December 1, 1941, the first transport of 1,197 women and children arrived in Đakovo. Another 668 women and children arrived three weeks later. There were about 50 Serb women among the women, but most of them were Jewish. In March 1942, Serbian and Jewish women, mostly suffering from typhus, were deported to Đakovo from Stara Gradiška 1161 . Behind this transport was obviously the plan of Ustascha General Vjekoslav Luburić , the commander in chief of all concentration camps in the NDH, to infect the camp and thus finally to liquidate it. Soon there were 3,000 internees in the camp. Typhus and diphtheria spread and there was hunger . From 1942 onwards, the situation for the women and children held in prison deteriorated dramatically, as did torture , mistreatment and rape of women by the Ustaša. In May, 1,500 women were seriously ill. Eventually the liquidation of the camp began, which ended on July 5th. Before that, 3,000 women and prisoners were transported to the Jasenovac concentration camp and most of them were murdered there. How many people died in Đakovo concentration camp has not yet been conclusively determined, but 569 women and children are buried in the Đakovo concentration camp cemetery in Đakovo, the only camp cemetery in Croatia .

literature

• 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 .

Web links

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum : The Jasenovac Extermination Camp. Terror in Croatia Mention of the Đakovo concentration camp
• Yad Vashem : Grave markers inscribed with the names of Jewish women and children who were victims of Djakovo camp in Croatia

Coordinates: 45 ° 11 ′ 1 ″  N , 18 ° 14 ′ 37 ″  E