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
Ante Vrban
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Ante Vrban was a Croatian major of the Ustaše Militia and later the Croatian Armed Forces of the Independent State of Croatia during World War II. He served as deputy commander of the Stara Gradiška c
Stara Gradiška concentration camp
…were poisoned using sulphur dioxide and later Zyklon B. Gassing was also tested on children in the yard, where the camp commandant, Ustaša sergeant Ante Vrban, viewed its effects. Most gassing deaths occurred in the attics of "the infamous tower", where several thousand children from the Kozara region were…
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