Jastrebarsko concentration camp
Coordinates: 45 ° 40 ′ 33 " N , 15 ° 38 ′ 33" E
The jastrebarsko concentration camp was a breeze concentration camp during the Second World War in Jastrebarsko in the Independent State of Croatia was established.
history
A total of 26 concentration camps were built on the territory of the Croatian state . Jastrebarsko was established by the Ustasha government movement on July 12, 1942 and dissolved again in November 1942.
The Jastrebarsko concentration camp was part of the Jasenovac camp complex , which consisted of five sub-camps and three smaller camps. The total area of the complex was 240 square kilometers. These camps include the three Sisak children's concentration camps , the largest camp for mostly Serbian children, the Gornja Rijeka camp as the smallest, and the Jastrebarsko camp. All camps were closed due to Bill No. 1528-2101-Z-1941 from September 25, 1941 and were under the supervision of Eugen Dido Kvaternik . The Jasenovac camp complex and thus also Jastrebarsko were subordinate to Maks Luburić .
On August 26, 1942, partisan units raided the camp. They took in a few hundred healthier and older children in their ranks. Another 1637 children were liberated and taken in by families in the surrounding communities and in Zagreb . Caritas took in around 500 other children. About 300 children remained in the camp hospital.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfgang Benz, Barbara Distel (ed.): The Place of Terror: History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps, Volume 9. CH Beck, Munich 2009, pp. 321–323.
- ^ Children's concentration camps of the Croatian Ustaša terrorists in World War II
- ^ Website of the Jasenovac Memorial, accessed on July 14, 2013