The event was attended by top state officials -- Croatian Parliament Speaker Josip Leko, Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic who is expected to give a talk, First Deputy Prime Minister Vesna Pusic as well as ministers Berislav Sipus, Orsat Miljenic and Tihomir Jakovina. Also present were a delegation of the City of Zagreb, led by mayor Milan Bandic, representatives of the diplomatic corps, church communities, national minorities, anti-fascist associations, as well as guests from Croatia and abroad.
President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic visited Jasenovac on April 22.
Of the 1,073 inmates who were in the camp on 22 April 1945, 600 attempted to escape and only about a hundred survived. The remaining 473 inmates who did not try to escape were killed and their bodies were cremated. The camp Jasenovac was the largest forced-labor and concentration camp set up by the Nazi-style Independent State of Croatia (NDH) in marshland at the confluence of the Sava and Una rivers near the village of Jasenovac in the second half of 1941 and operated until the breakout in 1945.
On the same day, inmates in the nearby camp "Kozara" also launched a breakout, and of 167, only 11 inmates survived.