Concentration camps in the Independent State of Croatia
During World War II, numerous concentration camps existed in the Independent State of Croatia. Most of them were operated by the Croatian Ustaša authorities, but some of them were operated by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.[1]
Ustaša-operated camps
Camp
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Location
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Operational
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number of prisoners
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number of deaths
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Jasenovac (I–IV)
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Jasenovac, Slavonia
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23 August 1941 – 22 April 1945
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100,000+
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c. 100,000[Note 1]
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Stara Gradiška (Jasenovac V)
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Stara Gradiška, Slavonia
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1941–1945
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12,790+
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9,586+
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Đakovo
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Đakovo, Slavonia
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1 December 1941 – 7 July 1942
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3,000
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at least 516 or 650
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Tenja
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Tenja, Osijek, Slavonia
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March 1942–August 1942
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3,000 Jews
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Sisak
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Sisak, Banovina
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August 1942–January 1943
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6,693 children, mostly Serbs
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at least 1152 or 1630
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Gospić
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Gospić, Lika
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June–August 1941[2]
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42,246[3]
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Jadovno
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Gospić, Lika
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1941–August 1941
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10,000–68,000
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Lepoglava
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Lepoglava, northern Croatia
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1941–1945
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2,000+ political
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at least 961 youngsters and 80 other inmates
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Danica
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Koprivnica, northern Croatia
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15 April 1941–July 1941[5]
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5,600
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Lobor
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Lobor, northern Croatia
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9 August 1941–November 1942
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2,000+ women and children, mostly Jews and Serbs
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200+
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Kerestinec
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Kerestinec, Zagreb
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1941–1945
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Jastrebarsko
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Jastrebarsko, Zagreb
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1942–
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1,500 children [6]
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Slana
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Pag, Dalmatia
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June 1941–August 1941[7]
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16,000
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4–12,000 or 8,500
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Metajna
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Pag, Dalmatia
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1941–1945
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Kruščica (Vitez)
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Vitez, central Bosnia
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1941–Late September 1941[8]
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3000
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Gornja Rijeka
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Gornja Rijeka, northern Croatia
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1941–1942
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400+
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at least 140
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German-operated camps
Italian-operated camps
In annexed territories
See also
Notes
References
Sources
- Books
- Deverić, Mišo; Fumić, Ivan (2008). Hrvatska u logorima, 1941-1945. Savez antifašističkih boraca i antifašista Republike Hrvatske. ISBN 978-953-7587-01-7.
- Hilberg, Raul (2003). The destruction of the European Jews (3rd ed.). New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300095579.
- Israeli, Raphael (19 February 2013). The Death Camps of Croatia: Visions and Revisions, 1941-1945. Transaction Publishers. ISBN 978-1-4128-4975-3.
- Korb, Alexander (2010). "A Multipronged Attack: Ustaša Persecution of Serbs, Jews, and Roma in Wartime Croatia". Eradicating Differences: The Treatment of Minorities in Nazi-Dominated Europe. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 145–163. ISBN 9781443824491.
- Peršen, Mirko (1990). Ustaški logori. Globus. ISBN 978-86-343-0547-0.
- Tomasevich, Jozo (2001). War and Revolution in Yugoslavia, 1941–1945: Occupation and Collaboration. Stanford: Stanford University Press. ISBN 9780804779241.
- Yeomans, Rory (2015). The Utopia of Terror: Life and Death in Wartime Croatia. Boydell & Brewer. ISBN 978-1-58046-545-8.
- Journals
- Conference papers and proceedings
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