Stara Gradiška was a concentration and extermination camp in the Independent State of Croatia during World War II. The camp was specially constructed for women and children of Serb, Jewish and Romani
View of the Stara Gradiška concentration camp at the site of the Stara Gradiška prison.
Mothers and children imprisoned in the tower of the concentration camp.
Prisoners seated in a field in the camp.
Remains of the camp in 2018
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The Ustaše was a Croatian fascist and ultranationalist organization active, as one organization, between 1929 and 1945. It was formally known as the Ustaša – Croatian Revolutionary Movement. From its
Stara Gradiška concentration camp
…women and children of Serb, Jewish and Romani ethnicity. Victims also included communist and anti-fascist Croats and Bosniaks. It was established by the Ustaše regime in 1941 at the Stara Gradiška prison near the eponymous village as the fifth subcamp of the Jasenovac concentration camp. According to the list…
Poglavnik Ante Pavelić and Italy's Duce Benito Mussolini on 18 May 1941 in Rome. The Ustaše were heavily influenced by Italian Fascism and politically supported by Fascist Italy.
Germany's Führer Adolf Hitler with Pavelić at the Berghof outside Berchtesgaden, Germany. The Ustaše increasingly came under the influence of Nazism after the founding of the NDH in 1941.
Anti-Chetnik (anti-Serb) and anti-communist Ustaše poster
A unit of Ustaše in Sarajevo, 1942