Jasenovac concentration camp
concentration camp run by the Ustaše in Independent State of Croatia during World War II. / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jasenovac concentration camp was the largest death camp and concentration camp in the Independent State of Croatia (ISC) during World War II. The camp was created by the Ustaše regime in August 1941 and destroyed in April 1945. Most of the people killed at Jasenovac were ethnic Serbs, who the ISC saw as their main ethnic enemy. The camp also held Jews, Roma, and a number of Croat and Bosniak Yugoslav Partisans and anti-Fascist civilians.[2]
Jasenovac concentration camp | |
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Location | Independent State of Croatia |
Date | August 1941 – April 1945 |
Attack type | Concentration camp, death camp |
Weapons | Poison gas, shootings, stabbings, evisceration, drowning, starvation |
Deaths | 80,000–100,000[1] (estimated) |
Perpetrators | Ustaše regime with support of Nazi Germany |
Jasenovac was a complex of five sub-camps [3] covering over 240 km2 (93 sq mi) on both banks of the Sava River. The largest camp was at Jasenovac, about 100 km (62 mi) southeast of Zagreb. The complex included large grounds at Donja Gradina directly across the Sava River; a children's death camp in Sisak; and a Stara Gradiška concentration camp.
The camp's history website says, "We cannot be sure of the exact number of victims of the Ustasha camp in Jasenovac. According to research completed so far, the number can be estimated at between 80,000 and 100,000".[1]