Jadovno concentration camp

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Jadovno concentration camp was an early World War II extermination site run by the Ustaše regime in the Independent State of Croatia, where tens of thousands of Serbs, Jews, and others were brutally murdered.

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Jadovno concentration camp canonical 2

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instanceOf concentration camp
extermination site
administeredBy Ustaše Surveillance Service (UNS)
causeOfDestruction dismantled after Italian takeover in 1941
closedBy Italian military authorities
coordinateLocation approximately 44.6°N 15.3°E
country Independent State of Croatia
endDate 1941-08
geographicalFeatureNearby Velebit mountain
karst pits and ravines
historicalContext Axis occupation of Yugoslavia
World War II
inceptionAsCampSystem Gospić–Jadovno–Pag camp complex
linked to: Ustaše camp system
languageOfToponym Croatian
locatedIn Lika region
modern-day Croatia
near Gospić
memorialization annual remembrance events for victims
commemorative sites in modern Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina
namedAfter Jadovno area on Velebit mountain
notableFeature one of the earliest extermination sites in World War II Europe
victims were often killed and thrown into karst pits
numberOfVictimsEstimate approximately 10,000–40,000
tens of thousands
operatedBy Ustaše
linked to: Ustaše Militia
operationalPeriod summer 1941
partOf Holocaust in the Independent State of Croatia
Ustaše concentration camp system
genocide of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia
persecution of Jews during the Holocaust
perpetrator Ustaše authorities of the Independent State of Croatia
Ustaše militia
linked to: Ustaše Militia
reasonForClosure Italian occupation of the area in 1941
relatedEvent Holocaust
genocide of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia
startDate 1941-06
status defunct
successorFacility Jasenovac concentration camp
Pag concentration camp
usedFor ethnic persecution
genocide
mass murder
victimGroup Jews
Roma
Serbs
anti-fascists
political opponents of the Ustaše

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Ustaše camp system hasPart Jadovno concentration camp