ZAGREB, Nov 5 (Hina) - A plaque commemorating about 100 young Jews executed at the Ustashi camp of Jadovno in 1941 was unveiled on Sunday in the lobby of the Zagreb Jewish Community, on the occasion of a meeting of the Co-ordination
of Jewish Communities in Croatia. The plaque, dedicated to the Jadovno victims by their families and friends, was unveiled by the president of the Zagreb Jewish Community, Ognjen Kraus, and the sole survivor of Jadovno, Bozo Schwartz. The Jadovno concentration camp was located in a valley on Mt Velebit. It covered an area of 1,250 square metres and was fenced off with a four-metre high fence, with guards surrounding it one kilometre deep into the area around the camp. There were no facilities or machines in the camp because it was not intended for long stays. Near the camp there was a pit into which the Ustashi threw prisoners slaughtered above the pit, Kraus said. The camp exist
ZAGREB, Nov 5 (Hina) - A plaque commemorating about 100 young Jews
executed at the Ustashi camp of Jadovno in 1941 was unveiled on
Sunday in the lobby of the Zagreb Jewish Community, on the occasion
of a meeting of the Co-ordination of Jewish Communities in
Croatia.
The plaque, dedicated to the Jadovno victims by their families and
friends, was unveiled by the president of the Zagreb Jewish
Community, Ognjen Kraus, and the sole survivor of Jadovno, Bozo
Schwartz.
The Jadovno concentration camp was located in a valley on Mt
Velebit. It covered an area of 1,250 square metres and was fenced
off with a four-metre high fence, with guards surrounding it one
kilometre deep into the area around the camp. There were no
facilities or machines in the camp because it was not intended for
long stays. Near the camp there was a pit into which the Ustashi
threw prisoners slaughtered above the pit, Kraus said.
The camp existed for 90 days, and in May, June and July 1941
thousands of people - men, women and children, were shipped daily to
Gospic. The last group of prisoners was killed with machine-guns in
August 1941. The victims of the Jadovno camp were mostly Serbs, Jews
and other people persecuted by the Ustashi regime. Most Jewish
victims were young people, high school and university students who
had been arrested at the very beginning of genocide as the future
intellectual elite, Kraus said.
In 1965 a monument was erected at Jadovno in memory of the suffering
of thousands of innocent people, but in the early 90's it was torn
down along with numerous monuments commemorating the victims of
fascism. The Jewish Communities of Croatia and Zagreb demand that
the monument and the entire memorial area of Jadovno be
reconstructed and that all sites where people suffered because of
national, racial and religious intolerance be properly marked,
Kraus said.
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