Maja Buždon

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Marija Buždon-Slomić (called Maja ; wrongly also Budjon ; born August 15, 1923 in Praputnjak near Bakar , Kingdom of Yugoslavia ; † May 28, 1945 in Zagreb , Yugoslavia ) was a member of the fascist Ustasha and war criminal during World War II . From 1942 to 1945 she was head of the women's section in the Stara Gradiška concentration camp , a satellite camp of the Jasenovac concentration camp during the “ Independent State of Croatia ” (NDH). Together with Nada Šakić and Božena Obradović , all three of whom boasted that they had personally committed crimes in the concentration camps, they became known as " Crna trojka " ("The Black Three").

history

After the "Independent State of Croatia" was founded in 1941 with the support of the Axis Powers , Buždon-Slomić joined the Ustasha movement. In 1942 she became a guard at the Stara Gradiška concentration camp. There she was involved in the killing of internees and is said to have been extremely brutal. Today she is named in one sentence with high-ranking concentration camp commanders and Ustaša members who were notorious for their crimes in the concentration camps of the Independent State of Croatia or were convicted of war crimes , including Miroslav Filipović . Filipović, a former Franciscan , was a military chaplain of the Ustasha and temporary commander of the concentration camps in Jasenovac and Stara Gradiška .

Buždon-Slomić had committed crimes against female prisoners, most of whom were Serbian or Jewish , including children. She is said to have strangled a prisoner with wire . During the 1999 trial of Dinko Šakić , a former prisoner of the concentration camp claimed that she had witnessed Buždon-Slomić killing a female prisoner. As a guard, she is said to have carried out direct orders from Ustasha General Vjekoslav Luburić . While taking Zagreb shortly before the end of World War II by the partisans was recognized by former prisoners and finally captured and on May 28, 1945 executed .

literature

  • Aleksandar Vojinović: BUŽDON-SLOMIĆ, Marija . In: Darko Stuparić (ed.): Tko je tko u NDH: Hrvatska 1941. – 1945 [Who is who in the NDH: Croatia 1941–1945] . Minerva, Zagreb 1997, p. 62 (Croatian).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Richard West: Tito and the Riese and Fall of Yugoslavia - The Ustasha Terror . 1996, ISBN 978-0-571-28110-7 .
  2. ^ A b Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team: The Jasenovac Extermination Camp - "Terror in Croatia".
  3. ↑ a b c Glas Javnosti : Ustaške krvnice sa kule (Serbian)
  4. ↑ Antun Miletić: Koncentracioni logor Jasenovac 1941-1945: dokumenata, Volume 2, Narodna knjiga, Beograd 1986, p. 769. (Serbo-Croatian)
  5. ↑ a b c Večernje novosti : Časni fratar - sotona (Serbian)
  6. ↑ Petar Stanivukovic and Jurica Kerbler: Deca u logorima smrti. Eksportpres, Beograd 1986, ISBN 978-8671450157 , p. 63 (Serbo-Croatian)
  7. ↑ Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team: Portrait of two young women in Ustasa uniform (Nada Šakić and Maja Buždon (right))
  8. ^ Croatian News Agency (HINA): Trial of Dinko Šakić - Three new witnesses questioned in Nada Šakić case
  9. ↑ Croatian News Agency (HINA): Trial of Dinko Šakić - Two witnesses' testimoniers read in court in Šakić was criems trial
  10. ↑ Antun Miletić: Koncentracioni logor Jasenovac 1941-1945 - Prilog broj 5 - Izvod iz saslušanja upravnice koncentracionog logora Stara Gradiška Maje Buždon-Slomić: Dokumenata, Knjiga II, Narodna knjiga, Beograd 1986, p. 1047. (Serbian)
personal data
SURNAME Buždon, Maja
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Slomić-Buždon, Maja; Budjon, Maja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Croatian concentration camp guard and war criminal according to SWC
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Praputnjak near Bakar , Kingdom of Yugoslavia
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 1945
Place of death Zagreb , Yugoslavia