Goli Otok
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Etymology | Croatian: goli otok, lit. 'barren island' |
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Geography | |
Adjacent to | Adriatic Sea |
Area | 4.54 km2 (1.75 sq mi)[1] |
Administration | |
Croatia | |
County | Primorje-Gorski Kotar |
Demographics | |
Population | 0 |
Goli Otok (pronounced
The island is located in the northern
Goli Otok prison
Goli Otok labor camp and prison | |
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labor camp | |
Location | Goli Otok, Croatia |
Operated by | Yugoslavia anti-communists |
Notable inmates | See List of notable prisoners section |
Despite having long been an occasional grazing ground for local shepherds' flocks, the barren island was apparently never permanently settled other than by the prisoners during the 20th century.[6] Throughout World War I, Austria-Hungary sent Russian prisoners of war from the Eastern Front to Goli Otok.[6]
In 1949, the entire island was officially made into a high-security, top secret prison and
Many
The prison inmates were forced to labor (in a
After Yugoslavia normalized relations with the Soviet Union, Goli Otok prison passed to the provincial jurisdiction of the
Notable prisoners
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- Šaban Bajramović, Serbian Romani musician[24]
- Panko Brashnarov, Macedonian politician[25]
- Vlado Dapčević, Yugoslav Montenegrin communist revolutionary and partisan[26]
- Adem Demaçi, Kosovo Albanian politician and author[27]
- Teki Dervishi, Albanian writer[27]
- Vlado Dijak, Yugoslav Bosnian Serb writer and partisan[28]
- Alija Izetbegović, later president of Bosnia and Herzegovina[27]
- Nikola Kljusev, former Prime Minister of Macedonia[29]
- Tine Logar, Slovenian linguist[30]
- Venko Markovski, Macedonian writer[6]
- Dragoljub Mićunović, Serbian partisan, sociologist, and politician[31]
- Dragoslav Mihailović, Serbian writer[32]
- Alfred Pal, Croatian painter and graphic designer[33]
- Dobroslav Paraga, Croatian politician[21]
- Aleksandar Popović, Serbian writer[34]
- Igor Torkar, Slovenian writer[6]
- Vlasta Velisavljević, Serbian actor[35]
- Ante Zemljar, Croatian partisan and writer[36]
- Savo Zlatić, Croatian physician and politician[37]
- Vitomil Zupan, Slovenian writer[6]
Goli Otok in literature
- 1981: Noč do jutra (Night till Morning Comes) ‒ novel by Slovenian author Branko Hofman[6]
- 1981: Herezia e Dervish Mallutes - allegorical novel by Kosovar author Teki Dervishi
- 1982: Tren 2 - novel by Antonije Isaković
- 1984: Umiranje na obroke (Dying by Installments) ‒ autobiographical book by Slovenian author Igor Torkar, about Goli Otok prison conditions
- 1984: Goli Otok: The Island of Death ‒ non-fiction book by Bulgarian/Macedonian author Venko Markovski, detailing a history of Goli Otok prison
- 1990: Goli Otok by Dragoslav Mihailović
- 1993: Lov na stenice by Dragoslav Mihailović
- 1996: Goli Otok: stratište duha ‒ non-fiction book by Croatian author Mihovil Horvat, containing the events of his arrest and imprisonment during Informbiro period
- 1997: Goli Otok: Italiani nel Gulag di Tito ‒ historical report by Italian-Croatian author Giacomo Scotti[14]
- 1997: Zlotvori – novel by Dragoslav Mihailović
- 1997: Tito's Hawaii ‒ novel by author using the pen-name Rade Panic (name taken from a political victim of the same name whose wife was interred on the island; not his actual name) [38]
- 2005: Razglednica s ljetovanja ‒ autobiographical short novel by the Croatian author Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso, 2008[39]
- 2010: Island of the World - novel by Canadian author, Michael D. O'Brien.
- 2019: Life Plays with Me (Published in North America as More Than I Love My Life) - novel by Israeli writer David Grossman. One of the main characters, Vera, was interned as a political prisoner in Goli Otok before immigrating to Israel.
- 2023: The Secret of Bald Island - non-fiction book by Claudia Sonia Colussi Corte, describing her father's (Cherubino Colussi Corte) return to Mali Lošinj, Yugoslavia, as part of the Italian Controesodo, his arrest on suspicion of being a Stalinist, and his imprisonment on Goli Otok during the Informbiro period. https://www.academia.edu/103126672/AO_4_Claudia_Sonia_Colussi_Corte_The_Secret_of_Bald_Island_trans_Konrad_Eisenbichler_
Goli Otok in film and television
- 1996: The Seventh Chronicle (Sedma kronika) – Croatian feature film about a Goli Otok inmate who escapes by swimming to the island of Rab, based on a novel by Grgo Gamulin[40]
- 2002: Eva ‒ documentary film told in English recounting the experiences of Eva Panić-Nahir, a former prisoner of the island; produced/directed by Avner Faingulernt[41]
- 2009: Strahota - Die Geschichte der Gefängnisinsel Goli Otok ‒ German-language documentary film with 8 former prisoners; produced/directed by Reinhard Grabher[42]
- 2012: Goli Otok ‒ documentary film directed by Darko Bavoljak[43]
- 2013: Lost Survivors ‒ Travel Channel reality TV survival series episode entitled "Prison Island"[44]
- 2014: Goli – documentary film directed by Tiha K. Gudac[45]
- 2014: In the Name of the People ‒ exhibition in Belgrade; with an alphabetical list of 16,500 names of people who were jailed at the Goli Otok available for online search on their website
- 2019: Mysteries of the Abandoned ‒ Season 4 Episode 9 "Haunting on Plague Island" [46]
References
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Goli otok ... a notorious Communist concentration camp
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- ^ Dežman, Jože (2006). The Making of Slovenia. Ljubljana: National Museum of Contemporary History. p. 140.
the concentration camp on Goli otok established in 1949
- ^ a b c Gibbens, Sarah (29 August 2017). "See the Haunting Ruins of a Prison Once Known as a 'Living Hell'". National Geographic. Archived from the original on September 1, 2017. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
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- ^ "'Nikada nećemo saznati čija je konkretno ideja o osnivanju logora na Golom otoku'".
- ^ Previšić 2015, p. 174.
- ^ Daniel J. Goulding, Liberated cinema: the Yugoslav experience, 1945-2001, Indiana University Press, 2002. (p. 159)
- ^ a b "Na Golom otoku žalio sam što nisam kriminalac". Večernji list (in Croatian). 1 January 2005. Retrieved 27 February 2017.
- ^ "Slobodna Dalmacija". arhiv.slobodnadalmacija.hr. Archived from the original on 2012-10-17. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
- ^ "Spomen žrtvama Golog otoka na Adi - Glas javnosti". www.glas-javnosti.rs. 3 December 2007. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
- ^ "BIO JE NEPONOVLJIV / Odrastao u bijedi, zbog djevojke pobjegao iz vojske pa završio na Golom otoku. Pio je i trošio kao da nema sutra, a umro u bijedi – 100posto.hr". Archived from the original on 2019-04-16. Retrieved 2019-04-16.
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- ^ "Odiseja Vlada Dapčevića". NOVOSTI (in Serbian). Retrieved 2022-08-26.
- ^ a b c "Croatia ponders fate of 'Tito's Guantanamo'". 2014. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
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- ^ "Tito's Hawaii, a novel about Goli Otok". www.oocities.org. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
- Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso.
- ^ "Baza HR kinematografije".
- ^ "Eva". IMDb.
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- ^ "Travel Channel's Lost Survivors episode, "Prison Island" partly filmed on Croati's Goli otok island". travelchannel.com. Archived from the original on 26 December 2013. Retrieved 17 January 2014.
- ^ Godeč, Željka (2 September 2014). "Moja potraga za istinom o djedovom zatočeništvu na Golom otoku". Jutarnji list (in Croatian). Retrieved 30 July 2018.
- ^ Mysteries of the Abandoned (TV Series 2017– ) - IMDb, retrieved 2021-12-02
Sources
- Previšić, Martin (2014). Povijest informbiroovskog logora na Golom otoku 1949. –1956 [History of the Goli Otok Cominformist Prison Camp 1949. – 1956.] (PDF) (in Croatian). Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
- Previšić, Martin (February 2015). "Broj kažnjenika na Golom otoku i drugim logorima za informbirovce u vrijeme sukoba sa SSSR-om (1948.-1956.)" [The Number of Convicts on Goli Otok and other Internment Camps during the Informbiro period (1948 – 1956)] (PDF). Historijski zbornik (in Croatian). 66 (1): 173–193. Retrieved 27 July 2018.
- Segel, Harold B., ed. (2012). The Walls Behind the Curtain: East European Prison Literature, 1945-1990. ISBN 9780822978022.
Further reading
- Ekohistorijski aspekti proučavanja logora na Golom otoku 1949.-1956.
- https://www.lopar.com/hrv/turisticka_ponuda/izleti/goli_otok.php
- Antić, Ana (1 September 2016). "The Pedagogy of Workers' Self-Management: Terror, Therapy, and Reform Communism in Yugoslavia after the Tito-Stalin Split". Journal of Social History. 50 (1): 179–203. hdl:10871/33111.
- ISBN 978-953266988-6.
External links
- www.goli-otok.hr
- www.goli-otok.com
- Comparative criminology | Europe - Yugoslavia
- Goli Otok: Hell in the Adriatic is the true story of Josip Zoretic's tragic experience and survival as a political prisoner of the former Yugoslavia's most notorious prison, Goli Otok, and the circumstances that led to his imprisonment [1]