A photograph of a group of Jewish women - mothers and their children being led to the forest to be killed in Donja Gradina - a clearing that was branched into the Croatian Jasenovac camp where executions were carried out. Fall 1943.
The Jasenovac camp was a concentration and extermination camp in Croatia, during World War II established by the Fascist Ustasha regime of the independent state of Croatia (NDH) in August 1941, and disbanded in April 1945. The victims of the camp were mainly Serbs, and other ethnic groups, mainly Jews and gypsies were also concentrated and murdered there. The Jews were sent to Jasenovac from all parts of Croatia, after being rounded up in Zagreb; Also from Bosnia and Herzegovina after being collected in Sarajevo, or other cities. Upon their arrival, most of them were murdered at execution sites near the camps: Granic, Gradina and other places. Donia Gradina was a site in a clearing near the village of Gradina, whose inhabitants were killed or deported. The place became a mass murder site to which masses of prisoners - women, children, and elderly, who were concentrated in Camp 3C - were taken for assassination, with severe and horrific torture that is difficult to describe.
Size: 30x24 cm. Light folds in paper. Good condition.
