Garavice

Garavice (Serbian Cyrillic: Гаравице) was an extermination location established by the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) during World War II in Yugoslavia near Bihać, in the Independent State of Croatia. Between 7,000 and 12,000 people, mostly Serbs and Jews were murdered at Garavice by the Ustasha in 1941.^[1]

The killings in Garavice were part of a widespread genocide of Serbs, that included expulsions, forced religious conversions, massacres or ethnic Serbs by the Ustasha regime in the Independent State of Croatia. These atrocities were carried out by Croat collaborators and Axis occupying forces during World War II.^[2][3][4][5]

Background

The

Some of the first decrees issued by the

Mass murders

Arrests of Serb and Jewish civilians in and around Bihać were ordered by Ljubomir Kvaternik, a county prefect, in June 1941. Arrestees were transported and executed at Garavice, near Bihać. In July 1941, the Ustashas murdered between 7,000-12,000 Serbs, Jews, and Roma in Garavice.^[9] The largest number of victims were Serbs. Corpses were thrown in mass graves at Garavice or tossed into the nearby Klokot and Una rivers.^[10][11] A large amount of blood contaminated the local water supply.^[12]

Memorial Park

In 1981, the

Bosnian government, and is overgrown with weeds and bushes, and desecrated with Nazi

and Ustasha graffiti.

See also

• Genocide of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia

References

1. ^ "Spomenik Database | Garavice Memorial at Bihać". spomenikdatabase. Retrieved 2023-08-06.
2. ^ "Serbian Genocide". combatgenocide.org. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
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6. ^ "Garavice kod Bihaća: Pomen za 14.500 stradalih Srba, Jevreja i Roma". glassrpske.com. 6 August 2016. Retrieved 15 July 2017.
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9. ^ "Spomenik Database | Garavice Memorial at Bihać". spomenikdatabase. Retrieved 2023-08-06.
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11. ^ "ПРВИ ОКРУГЛИ СТО "ГАРАВИЦЕ 1941" | Јадовно 1941". jadovno.com. 15 December 2011. Retrieved 15 July 2017.
12. ^ Bergholz, Max (2012). "None of us Dared Say Anything: Mass Killing in a Bosnian Community during World War Two and the Postwar Culture of Silence" (PDF). University of Toronto. p. 76.
13. ^ "Commission to preserve national monuments". 2014-10-19. Archived from the original on 2014-10-19. Retrieved 2021-07-17.

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