Croatia, Jasenovac Memorial Site. The heap of ground indicate the places where the barracks stood.

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Jasenovac and Donja Gradina Memorial Site. In 1941 the Ustaše government founded Jasenovac concentration camp, on the left bank of the Sava river. Up to the end of the Second World War, hundreds of thousands of people were deported there : most of them were Serb, Jew, Gipsy or political opponent and about children. Jasenovac extermination camp included also 5 sub-campsin the neighborhood. People there died mainly of starvation, but many prisoners were brutally murdered and then buried in mass graves or burnt . Mass graves and execution place were on the other side of the river Sava, at Donja Gradina. At the end of the war, the Ustaše destroied the camp to hide their crimes. In the 1965, the Yugoslavian Government built the memorial site, to keep the historical memory of those horrible events. A huge monument called "The Flower", by the famous architect Bogdan Bogdanovic was placed in the area. After the Yugoslavian wars, the border between Croatia and Bosnia runs along the Sava river, so the Memorial Site is divided into two parts and visitors must cross the border to see both parts.

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Size: 3819px × 2555px
Location: Jasenovac, Croazia
Photo credit: © Ferdinando Piezzi / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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