Prison camp in Yugoslavia; Communist commemoration

Identifier
irn1003459
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2004.740.1
  • RG-60.4053
Dates
1 Jan 1941 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Serbocroatian
Source
EHRI Partner

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Scope and Content

Titles in Cyrillic - Serbo-Croatian. Series of head shots, close, of corpses with names superimposed. HAS from airplane. Destruction, ruins in town. Croatian man. Homes. Group of villagers (men) marching, soldiers guarding them. Pan up, gate with "Radna Sluzba Ustaske Obrane Sabirni Logor Br. III" German sign: "Arbeitslager..." Prisoners, soldier with rifles, walking barefoot to perform labor, horse/carts, farmhouse. VAR shots, carts, construction, labor (digging, etc). Guardtower. Pushing wheelbarrow. Soldier with gun guards from tower. Lunch rations. Newspapers/headlines. Corpses. Local farmers, hay, interviewing a bare-chested man at lakeside. Corpses. Sculptor, artwork. Interviewing another man. Ustasha officials visit camp, climb watchtower, play with a bird. More corspes, piles of logs, ruins. Sign on building "Tvornica Lanaca." More corspes. Destruction to building, bricks, bones, barbed wire, debris/corpses in the river (near Jasenovac?). Signs, headlines. Civilians gather for memorials/funerals with signs and flowers during Communist times (hammer & sickle, red star visible). CUs, Ustashe? officials on trial. Narodni List headline. HAS, parade thorugh town. Sign showing term Jasenovac.

Note(s)

  • During World War II, Lepoglava was a prison for officials and supporters of the ex-Yugoslav kingdom run by the Ustashe. 1000 people died there, including Lorkovic and Vokic who attempted a coup against the Ustashe and were executed in April 1945.

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