Uštica concentration camp
The concentration camp Uštica ( Serbo-Croatian Koncentracioni Logor Uštica , Концентрациони Логор Уштица; Logor Uštica , Логор Уштица), was in the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) one specifically for Roma constructed concentration camps , which was called "Gypsy camp". It was during World War II in today's Croatian village Uštica near Jasenovac built and between 1942 and 1945 by the Croatian - fascist Ustasha operated.
history
On May 8, 1942 , the Ustasha deported the Serbian Orthodox population of the village of Uštica to the Jasenovac and Stara Gradiška concentration camps , from where some were further deported to the Sajmište concentration camp . The houses and properties of the deported Serbs were then fenced in with barbed wire and converted into a concentration camp, which was then intended for Roma, for whom there was no space in Camp III, the so-called Ciglana camp , which was part of the Jasenovac camp complex. In addition, some Serbs were held prisoner in the Uštica concentration camp, who were deported from there during an offensive by the Yugoslav partisans on the Kozara region occupied by the Ustasha . Some internees from the camp were sent to Donja Gradina as slave labor . There many were murdered in the most terrible way, others were killed in the camp itself. Today a plaque commemorates the war crimes committed , which refers exclusively to 21 graves of interned Roma.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d jusp-jasenovac.hr: Uštica (English)
- ↑ a b 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. 327.