Metajna concentration camp

View from the Velebit massif to the island of Pag, on which two concentration camps were located.

The Metajna concentration camp ( Serbo - Croatian Koncentracioni logor Metajna / Концентрациони логор Метајна ) was a concentration and extermination camp for women and children in the Independent State of Croatia (NDH), a vassal state of the fascist Axis powers . It was located near the village of Metajna on the Adriatic island of Pag , near the town of the same name, Pag , after which it was named.

It was in operation from July to August 1941 and was one of the most notorious camps in Southeastern Europe , which was occupied at the time, mainly because of the crimes against women and children that were committed there. The prisoners were mainly Serbian , Jewish and Roma women and their children. After the Slana concentration camp , it was the island's second concentration camp during World War II .

history

In June 1941, on the initiative of Mijo Babić , the representative of Department III of the Ustaša Control Service (UNS), which was responsible for the establishment, control and organization of the concentration camps in the NDH state, a concentration and extermination camp was established in Metajna specially designed for women and children. Rape , torture, and killings occurred there . The victims were often brutally killed and then thrown into pits or into the Adriatic Sea . The number of deaths, especially Serbs and Jews, is estimated at several thousand. The camp was closed after the island was handed over to Italian armed forces at the end of August 1941 . The survivors were Gospić and jastrebarsko concentration camp mostly in the Jasenovac concentration camp transported. The Metajna concentration camp was next to the Slana concentration camp the second camp of the Adrainsel Pag, in which systematic murder was carried out. Nothing on Pag today reminds of the crimes committed in the summer of 1941.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ 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. 326.
^ Hans-Christian Petersen and Samuel Salzborn - Antisemitism in Eastern Europe: History and Present in Comparison , p. 70, Peter Lang AG - Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaft, Frankfurt 2010, ISBN 978-3-631-59828-3 .
^ Till Bastian - Sinti and Roma in the Third Reich: History of a persecution , p. 72, Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-406-47551-5 .

[Terror-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ 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. 326.

[2] Hans-Christian Petersen and Samuel Salzborn - Antisemitism in Eastern Europe: History and Present in Comparison , p. 70, Peter Lang AG - Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaft, Frankfurt 2010, ISBN 978-3-631-59828-3 .

[3] Till Bastian - Sinti and Roma in the Third Reich: History of a persecution , p. 72, Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-406-47551-5 .