Jasenovac Memorial Area collection

Identifier
irn522962
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2002.537
  • RG-61.001M
Dates
1 Jan 1939 - 31 Dec 1991
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Serbo-Croatian
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn522962

Extent and Medium

608 microfiche,

Creator(s)

  • Spomen-podruc?je Jasenovac

Archival History

Spomen-područje Jasenovac

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Natasa Jovicic

The original material was loaned to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by the governments of the Repulic of Croatia and the Republicka Srpska. It arrived at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on November 27, 2000 and was returned to the Public Institution Jasenovac Memorial Area in the Republic of Croatia on November 11, 2001. The reproductions of the original material were made by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in September 2001.

Scope and Content

This collection contains records created by the camp memorial administrations of Jasenovac, Lobor-Grad, and Stara Gradiška, including registers of artifacts and documents; testimonies by surviving inmates of the camps; copies of files relating to Croatian war crimes investigations and trials; documents relating to the camps and the activities of the Croatian government ministries during the period 1941‒1945; name lists of people who were displaced, deported, interned, and/or murdered; translations of German documents relating to the activities of German military units in Croatia; testimonies regarding mass murders at the Dubicke Krecane camp; transcripts of survivors' oral histories; and other materials.

System of Arrangement

Organized in the following order: 2002.537.1, microfiche located in Abramson Archives; 2002.537.2, videotapes of film footage located in the Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive; 2002.537.3, audiocassettes of oral histories located in the Oral History Branch; 2002.537.4, images of photographs located in the Photo Archives Branch; 2002.537.5, images of documents, photographs, and artifacts located in the Institutional Photograph Collection

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Spomen-područje Jasenovac

Corporate Bodies

  • Jasenovac (Concentration camp)

Subjects

  • Jews--Persecutions--Croatia--Yugoslavia.
  • Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945)--Croatia--History.
  • Jews--Persecutions--Croatia--Registers.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Yugoslavia.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Croatia.

Genre

  • Document
  • Testimonies.
  • Registers.
This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.

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