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The
Jasenovač Death Camps
This
is the testimony of a Jewish Holocaust survivor from Yugoslavia who
was arrested in 1941 in Zagreb and imprisoned in the Jasenovač
concentration camp between August 1941-April 1942. He was released
thanks to his mixed marriage. He died ca. 1986 in Yugoslavia. The
testimony was written in 1945. After the death of his wife in 1994
the manuscript was turned over to the National Commission for the
Verification of the Crimes of the Occupier and Its Accomplices.
Schwarz describes the horrifying reality of the camp in the first
year of the Ustaša regime in Croatia. The Ustaša, who
manned the camp staff, forced the Serb, Jewish, and Catholic
prisoners to do slave labor while constantly murdering them or
starving them to death.
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