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Serbien ist judenfrei

The Sajmište concentration camp was a Nazi German concentration and extermination camp during World War II. It was located at the former Belgrade fairground site near the town of Zemun, in the Independent State of Croatia (NDH). The camp was organized and operated by SS Einsatzgruppen units stationed in occupied Serbia. It became operational in September 1941. The Germans dubbed it the Jewish camp in Zemun. At the end of 1941 and the beginning of 1942, thousands of Jewish women, children and old men were brought to the camp.  Between March and May 1942, the Germans used a gas van sent from Berlin to kill thousands of Jewish inmates.                            .

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The Banjica concentration camp was a Nazi German concentration camp in the Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia, the military administration of the Third Reich established after the Invasion and occupation of Yugoslavia during World War II.  the German army instituted severe repressive measures – mass executions of civilian hostages and the establishment of concentration camps. 

April 6, 1941 - Germany and its allies invaded Yugoslavia.

April 10, 1941 - The German army entered Zagreb. Arrests began according to pre-prepared lists.

Three Jewish communities in Croatia - Sarajevo, Osijek and Zagreb, took it upon themselves and divided the role of assistance to the detainees between them, in several concentration camps.

August 2, 1941 - the Croatian Ossetians began murdering Jews, Gypsies and Serbs.

 (Logor Jasenovac August 1941 – Jasenovac was established by the Fascist Ustasha regime of the

Independent State of Croatia, the biggest Concentration and Extermination Camp in Croatia.

September 1941 - the Stara Gradiška concentration camp was established in the Jasnovac camp

complex, which was used to hold women and children.

November 23, 1941 - They began shipping Jews to Jasnovac from all parts of Croatia, after they were gathered in Zagreb, and from Bosnia and Herzegovina after they were gathered in Sarajevo.

December 1941 - Koncentracioni logor Đakovo camp was established in Croatia and another concentration camp was established in Tenja near Osijek, Croatia Osijek, Logor Tenja.

The winter of 1941-1942 was particularly cold. The temperatures dropped to minus 42 degrees.

August 15, 1942 - The shipments of children from Tania to Auschwitz began, where they were all exterminated.

October 17, 1942 - All the Jewish prisoners from the concentration camps on German soil were

transferred to Auschwitz

August 18, 1942 – Mothers were sent to Jasnovac, where they were all murdered.


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