Projekt Dotrščina: Zagrepčani - revolucionari, antifašisti i žrtve fašističkog terora 1941. - 1945. (podserija)
- The Dotrščina Park Project: citizens of Zagreb, revolutionaries, anti-Fascist fighters and victims of fascist terror 1941-1945
Web Source
arhinet.arhiv.hr; www.dotrscina.hr
Extent and Medium
109 books (green books)
Scope and Content
The Dotrsicna park in Zagreb is the site of the mass murder where around 18 000 citizens of Zagreb and its surroundings were shot during the Fascist regime due to their ethnic background, or the fact they were anti-regime. Thanks to archivists Josipa Paver and Igor Graovac, there was systematic work on the names of the victims from 1967 until the late 1990s.
The project started in the State Archive back in 1967, and lasted, with interruptions, until April 1985. The project examined the records of the Croatian State Archives, the former archives of the Institute of History of the labor movement, the Revolution Museum in Zagreb and the Historical Archives of the City of Zagreb, the Institute for Forensic Medicine in Zagreb, Mirogoj cemetery in Zagreb, Yugoslavia Archive, Army History Institute and the Institute of Military Medical Documentation in Belgrade. In addition to research archives, the examiners viewed the contemporary press, gathered witness statements, etc. For each killed person they made an identification sheet with basic personal information and information about the time and place and manner of death, indicating the sources (a total of 18,627 biographies, bound in 113 books) . In the above-mentioned number of registered victims, 6537 can be identified as Jews.
Finding Aids
Available.
Existence and Location of Copies
USHMM, as of 2015.
Note(s)
The date refers to the time Dotrscina park was used as a place of mass murder, and not to the creation of the collection. The collection was created in the 1960s with ongoing work lasted well into the early 2000s.
Rules and Conventions
EHRI Guidelines for Description v.1.0
Subjects
- Murder of non-Jews
- Murder of Jews
- Murder sites
Places
- zagreb
- Croatia