Concentration camps in the Independent State of Croatia
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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.{{cite web|url=http://www.jusp-jasenovac.hr/Default.aspx?sid=6877|title=Camps in the Independent State of Croatia|publisher=Jasenovac Memorial Area|access-date=31 December 2012}}
Ustaša-operated camps
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| Camp
! Location ! Operational ! number of prisoners ! number of deaths |
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| Jasenovac (I–IV)
| Jasenovac, Slavonia | align="center" | 23 August 1941 – 22 April 1945 | align=center | 100,000+ | align="center" | {{circa}} 100,000These numbers vary widely, and were frequently manipulated by various sides during Yugoslavia's history, see Jasenovac concentration camp. |
| Stara Gradiška (Jasenovac V)
| Stara Gradiška, Slavonia | align="center" | 1941–1945 | align=center | 12,790+ | align="center" | 9,586+ |
| Đakovo
| Đakovo, Slavonia | align="center" | 1 December 1941 – 7 July 1942 | align=center | 3,000 | align="center" | at least 516 or 650 |
| Tenja
| align="center" | March 1942–August 1942 | align=center | 3,000 Jews | align="center" | |
| Sisak
| Sisak, Banovina | align="center" | August 1942–January 1943 | align=center | 6,693 children, mostly Serbs | align="center" | at least 1152 or 1630 |
| Gospić
| Gospić, Lika | align="center" | June–August 1941{{cite book|title=Radovi (Filozofski Fakultet Zagreb. Humanisticke i Drustvene Znanosti)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CKtnAAAAMAAJ|year=2007|publisher=Zavod|quote=Veći koncentracijski logor bio je Gospić (lipanj - kolovoz 1941)...}} | align=center | |
| Jadovno
| Gospić, Lika | align="center" | 1941–August 1941{{sfn|Hilberg|2003|p=760}} | align=center | | align="center" | 10,000–68,000 |
| Lepoglava
| Lepoglava, northern Croatia | align="center" | 1941–1945 | align=center | 2,000+ political | align="center" | at least 961 youngsters and 80 other inmates |
| Danica
| Koprivnica, northern Croatia | align="center" | 15 April 1941–July 1941{{harvnb|Hilberg|2003|p=759}}: "Surviving inmates transferred to Jadovno" | align=center | 5,600 | align="center" | |
| Lobor
| Lobor, northern Croatia | align="center" | 9 August 1941–November 1942 | align=center | 2,000+ women and children, mostly Jews and Serbs | align="center" | 200+ |
| Kerestinec
| Kerestinec, Zagreb | align="center" | 1941–1945 | align=center | | align="center" | |
| Jastrebarsko
| Jastrebarsko, Zagreb | align="center" | 1942– | align=center | | align="center" | 1,500 children {{cite web|url=http://www.nezavisne.com/stampano-izdanje/dogadjaji/Prvi-put-obiljezeno-stradanje-djece-66739.html|title=Prvi put obilježeno stradanje djece|publisher=Nezavisne novine|author=Rade Šegrt|date=26 August 2010|access-date=25 September 2010}} |
| Slana
| Pag, Dalmatia | align="center" | June 1941–August 1941{{harvnb|Hilberg|2003|p=759}}: "Closed August 1941, when the Italians occupied the island. Men were sent on to Jadovno, women to Kruščica" | align=center | 16,000 | align="center" | 4–12,000 or 8,500 |
| Metajna
| Pag, Dalmatia | align="center" | 1941–1945 | align=center | | align="center" | |
| Kruščica (Vitez)
| Vitez, central Bosnia | align="center" | 1941–Late September 1941{{harvnb|Hilberg|2003|p=760}}: "Surviving inmates to Jasenovac" | align=center | | align="center" | 3000 |
| Gornja Rijeka
| Gornja Rijeka, northern Croatia | align="center" | 1941–1942 | align=center | 400+ | align="center" | at least 140 |
Chetnik-operated camps
German-operated camps
Italian-operated camps
=In annexed territories=
See also
Notes
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References
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Sources
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;Books
- {{cite book|last1=Deverić|first1=Mišo|last2=Fumić|first2=Ivan|title=Hrvatska u logorima, 1941-1945|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yPkMAQAAMAAJ|year=2008|publisher=Savez antifašističkih boraca i antifašista Republike Hrvatske|isbn=978-953-7587-01-7}}
- {{cite book|last1=Hilberg|first1=Raul|title=The destruction of the European Jews|date=2003|publisher=Yale University Press|location=New Haven, CT|isbn=9780300095579|edition=3rd}}
- {{cite book|last=Israeli|first=Raphael|title=The Death Camps of Croatia: Visions and Revisions, 1941-1945|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fA_FZYUE_IwC&pg=PA73|date=19 February 2013|publisher=Transaction Publishers|isbn=978-1-4128-4975-3}}
- {{cite book|last=Korb|first=Alexander|chapter=A Multipronged Attack: Ustaša Persecution of Serbs, Jews, and Roma in Wartime Croatia|title=Eradicating Differences: The Treatment of Minorities in Nazi-Dominated Europe|year=2010|location=Newcastle upon Tyne|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing|pages=145–163|isbn=9781443824491|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wGknBwAAQBAJ}}
- {{cite book|last=Peršen|first=Mirko|title=Ustaški logori|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zl4NAAAAIAAJ|year=1990|publisher=Globus|isbn=978-86-343-0547-0}}
- {{cite book|last=Tomasevich|first=Jozo|title=War and Revolution in Yugoslavia, 1941–1945: Occupation and Collaboration|year=2001|location=Stanford|publisher=Stanford University Press|isbn=9780804779241|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fqUSGevFe5MC}}
- {{cite book|last=Yeomans|first=Rory|title=The Utopia of Terror: Life and Death in Wartime Croatia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8HEDCwAAQBAJ|year=2015|publisher=Boydell & Brewer|isbn=978-1-58046-545-8}}
;Journals
- {{cite journal|last=Cvetković|first=Dragan|title=Holokaust u Nezavisnoj Državi Hrvatskoj - numeričko određenje|trans-title=Holocaust in Independent State of Croatia|journal=Istorija 20. Veka: Časopis Instituta za savremenu istoriju|year=2011|volume=29|issue=1|pages=163–182|doi=10.29362/ist20veka.2011.1.cve.163-182|doi-access=free}}
;Conference papers and proceedings
- {{cite book|author=SANU|title=Genocid nad Srbima u II svetskom ratu|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uT2BAAAAIAAJ|year=1995|publisher=Muzej žrtava genocida i Srpska književna zadruga}}
- {{cite book|editor-last1=Schindley|editor-first1=Wanda|editor-last2=Makara|editor-first2=Petar|title=Jasenovac: Proceedings of the First International Conference and Exhibit on the Jasenovac Concentration Camps|year=2005|publisher=Dallas Publishing|isbn=9780912011646|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pAJnAAAAMAAJ}}
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{{Genocide of Serbs}}
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