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Jasenovac Memorial Area collection

Document | Not Digitized | Accession Number: 2002.537 | RG Number: RG-61.001M

Overview

Description: 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.
Date: inclusive: 1939-1991
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Natasa Jovicic
Collection Creator: Spomen-podruc?je Jasenovac

Physical Details

Language: Serbo-Croatian
Genre/Form: Registers. Testimonies.
Extent: 608 microfiche.
System of Arrangement: Organized in the following order: 2002.537.1, microfiche; 2002.537.2, videotapes of film footage; 2002.537.3, audiocassettes of oral histories; 2002.537.4, images of photographs; 2002.537.5, images of documents, photographs, and artifacts

Rights & Restrictions

Conditions on Access: This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing station. There are no additional access restrictions to this material.
Conditions on Use: No restrictions on use
Copyright Holder: Spomen-područje Jasenovac

Keywords & Subjects

Topical Term: World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Yugoslavia. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Croatia. Jews--Persecutions--Croatia--Registers. Jews--Persecutions--Croatia--Yugoslavia. Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945)--Croatia--History.
Corporate Name: Jasenovac (Concentration camp)

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Spomen-područje Jasenovac
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: 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.

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