Mlaka concentration camp

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The Mlaka concentration camp ( Serbo-Croatian Logor Mlaka / Логор Млака) was a concentration and labor camp specially designed for women in the Independent State of Croatia (NDH), a fascist vassal state of the Axis powers . It was built in 1941 during the Second World War in the village of Mlaka , 12 kilometers from Jasenovac and operated by the Croatian Ustaša . The prisoners were mainly Serbian , but also Jewish and Roma women. Numerous prisoners were murdered in Mlaka and in the nearby forests or deported to the Jasenovac or Stara Gradiška concentration camps .

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