Nada Šakić

Nada Šakić (also known as Esperanza Luburić ; * August 4, 1926 in Livno , Kingdom of Yugoslavia ; † February 5, 2011 in Zagreb ) was a guard in the concentration camp as a member of the fascist Ustasha in the " Independent State of Croatia " (NDH) during World War II Stara Gradiška , a subcamp of the Jasenovac concentration camp for women and children. Šakić (nee Tambić, later Luburić) was the half-sister of Ustaša General Vjekoslav Luburić and the wife of war criminal Dinko Šakić , who in turn ran the Jasenovac extermination camp . In 1998 the couple were arrested in Argentina and extradited to Croatia. Nada Šakić is said to have murdered and tortured in the women's camp during her time in the concentration camp. She was interrogated by the Zagreb District Court , but released in 1999 due to lack of evidence.

Together with Maja Buždon and Božica Obradović , she is one of the most famous female Ustaša members, who were collectively called "crna trojka" .

Life

As a half-sister of Vjekoslav Luburić, the commander of all the camps in fascist Croatia, Nada Šakić worked in the Stara Gradiška concentration camp in 1942 at the age of 16. She and her husband fled Croatia in 1945. The couple lived in Santa Teresita, 300 kilometers southeast of Buenos Aires, until Dinko Sakić's arrest in the spring of 1998 . The couple met in the concentration camp, where Nada, who later called herself Esperanza , is said to have been known for her cruelty. Months later, she was also extradited to Croatia and, like Dinko Šakić, taken to the Zagreb prison after the "Nazi hunter" and director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center had located Efraim Zuroff . The incriminating documents from the Simon Wiesenthal Center ultimately led to the extradition.

In July 1998, Efraim Zuroff handed over documents to the Croatian judicial authorities which he believed Nada Šakić would be convicted. According to the prosecutor, the evidence was not sufficient to lead an indictment. According to the judicial authorities in Zagreb, Nada Šakić suffered from Parkinson's disease . While Tommy Bear from the Bnai Brith in New York (children of the covenant), the oldest Jewish communication center in the USA, understood the explanations and the behavior of the Zagreb authorities and said that the witnesses were too old and the evidence too poor, Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff was optimistic and said: "I trust the judiciary in Zagreb". In the course of the investigation, both Croatian and Serbian media reported that Šakić had died on February 5, 2011.

Individual evidence

1. ^ New York Times : War Crimes Horrors Revive As Croat Faces Possible Trial
2. ↑ ^{a b} Srpska Mreza: Sakic's wife Esperanza Luburic ( Memento of the original from December 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Glas Srpske : Расписали потјерницу за мртвом Надом Шакић (Serbian) - Added October 2, 2013
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Die Welt : Serbia allegedly hunts dead ex-concentration camp guard
5. ↑ ^{a b} B92 : Serbia issues warrant for "deceased WW2 Ustasha"
6. ↑ ^{a b c d e} haGalil : Nada Šakić released from prison: Croatian authorities are having a hard time with the legacy of the Ustaše
7. ↑ ^{a b} haGalil : Wife of concentration camp commandant Šakić in custody: Yugoslavia applied for the extradition of the 76-year-olds
8. ↑ ^{a b c} haGalil : Ex-commandant of the Jasenovac concentration camp will shortly be on trial: charges brought against Dinko Šakić
9. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} haGalil : 'The Couple from Hell' reunited: Nada Šakić arrived in Zagreb
10. ^ Richard West: Tito and the Riese and Fall of Yugoslavia - The Ustasha Terror. 1996, ISBN 978-0-571-28110-7 .
11. ↑ Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team: The Jasenovac Extermination Camp - "Terror in Croatia".