Detention Center Villa Luburić

Memorial plaque at the former location (in the background the Holiday Inn)

The internment camp Villa Luburić was a villa in the " Independent State of Croatia " (NDH) , which was converted into an internment and execution camp in Sarajevo from 1941 to April 6, 1945 , in which hundreds of Serbs and Jews were interned, tortured and executed by the fascist Ustaše were murdered. It was named after Vjekoslav Luburić , a Ustasha general, and the commander of the Jasenovac and Stara Gradiška concentration camps . It was previously called Vila Vilkert (German: Villa Wilker). Luburić himself murdered numerous internees at the camp. After Sarajevo's liberation by the partisans on April 6, 1945, numerous corpses were exhumed from the camp's garden. Soon afterwards the building was converted into a memorial . With the rise of the politician Džemal Bijedić , the attitude towards the memorial also changed. Finally, in the early 1970s, he decided to demolish the building and build a kindergarten in its place . The memorial service in honor of the victims was held annually until 1992. Today only a plaque reminds of the internment camp and the crimes committed there.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ United States Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad: Jewish Heritage Sites of Bosnia-Herzegovina - “Luburica Villa” - Ustashe Prison and Execution Place . 2011, p. 20