The Holocaust in CroatiaALEXIS REEDER

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Background of Croatia

April 10,1941: Independent State of Croatia was founded

Capital: Zagreb

Government: Puppet State, Dictatorship,and Monarchy

Leader: Ante Pavelic, Ustase

Location of Croatia

Country in Europe situated beside the Adriatic Sea. On its northern side is Hungry and Austria, and on its east side are the territories of Serbia, Bosnia, and Herzegvina.

It is where the regions of the mountains, Mediterranean, and Pannonian meet together.

The five travel regions are:

1. Central Croatia

2. Kvarner

3. Slavonia

4. Dalmatia

5. Istria.

Central Croatia is where the capital is located at

Propoganda

Signed the main race law on April 30,1941

Newspaper novelist concluded that the Croatian people must, “be more alert than any other ethnic group to protect their racial purity,… We need to keep our blood clean of Jews.”

Jews were synonymous of: treachery, cheating, greed, immorality, and foreigness.”

Jews have always been against an independent Croatian State and Croatian people

Jews were responsible for, “the many failures and misfortunes of so many Croatian People.”

Propaganda (Cont.)

Ustase Leader Ante Pavelic to “eradicate the evils.”

Ustasa movement defines Judaism “as one of the greatest enemies of the people.”

July 1941, the Franciscan priest, Dionysius Juriceo in Novi list wrote “it is no longer a sin to kill a 7 year old.”

Picture: Wenn Du dieses Zeichen siehst- If you see this sign then anyone you see is a Jew or indication of a Jew.

Concentration Camps #1

April 1941, the Ustase established the concentration camps Danica (near Koprivinica) and Kenestinec.

May 1941, Ustase rounded up 165 Jewish youth in Zagreb, ages 17-25, and sent them to the Danica Concentration Camp (all but 3 were killed by Ustase).

May and June established new camps

Arrested and sent to the camps were larger groups of Jews from Zagreb, Bihac, Karlovac, Sarajevo, Varazdin, Bjelovar, etc.

Concentration Camps (Cont.) #2

July 8, 1941 Ustase ordered all arrested Jews be sent to Gospic.

Death camp Jadovno on Velebit and Slano on the island of Pag.

Mass extinctions.

Historian Paul Mojzes lists: 1,998 Jews, 38,010 Serbs, and 88 Croats killed at Jadovno, among them 1,000 children.

10,000-68,000 deaths at the Jadovno system of camps. Jews death range from several hundred to 2,500-2,800.

In August 1941, Ustase established Jasenovac concentration camp, which is the largest in Europe. Included the Stara Grad Islea concentration camp for women and children.

Concentration Camps (Cont.) #3

Between 1941-1945, Ustase regime murdered between 77,000 and 99,000 people in Jasenovac system camps.

80,000 and 100,000 victims.

20,000 Jews

Individual names of 83,145 victims, including:

1. 13,116 Jews

2. 16,173 Roma

3. 47,627 Serbs

4. 4,255 Croats

Concentration Camps (Cont.) #4

1,128 Moslems of the total 83,145

Named Jasenovac victims:

20,101 were children under the age of 12

23,474 were women

What would you do? Question: Do you believe in the Holocaust? And what would you

have done to prevent it if you could?(All responders wanted to remain anonymous)

Response #1: Yes, I believe in the Holocaust and I would probably rebel even though I would die. But there was no reason for the Holocaust other than someone had power and he lost control. It didn't really serve any purpose besides destroying innocent lives.-anonymous

Response #2: Yes, I believe in the Holocaust and I would join the nazi army and find a way to shut it down from the inside.-anonymous

Response #3: Yes, I believe in the Holocaust and I would try to give peace.-anonymous

Response #4: Yes, I do believe in the Holocaust and honestly I don't think it could have been prevented. Today, we can all look back and think it would be easy for us to say we would have done this or that to stop it but non of us were there to see what was truly going on. I have seen several documentaries about the Holocaust and as much as I feel like I sympathize with the victims, I don't think any of us who weren't there can truly understand what they went through. We can study about it all we want and I don't believe we will ever truly get it and the world then was such a different place.-anonymous

Response #5: No, I do not believe in the Holocaust because I think was a very horrible idea in the first place.-anonymous

Works Cited

Info:

http://www.whereiscroatia.net

http://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust_in_the_Independent_State_of_Croatia

Pictures:

www.google.com