A large group of children are assembled outside in the Gornja Rijeka concentration camp.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 46610

Overview

Caption: A large group of children are assembled outside in the Gornja Rijeka concentration camp.
Date: 1942
Locale: Gornja Rijeka, [Croatia] Yugoslavia
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Memorijalni muzej Jasenovac
Event History: Gornja Rijeka was a concentration camp in northern Croatia established in 1941 to accommodate the overflow of prisoners from the nearby Loborgrad camp for women and children. Initially, only the older women and children who could not work, were sent to Gornja Rijeka, but this practice was soon abandoned. During the summer of 1942 Gornja Rijeka became one of the internment camps where Serbian orphans from the Kozara region, whose parents had been sent to forced labor in Germany, were taken. Because of a lack of food and sanitation most of the prisoners in this camp perished during the war.

[Source: Goldstein, Ivo. Holocaust in Zagreb, chapter 20 (Serbo-Croatian).]

Photo Source: Memorijalni muzej Jasenovac

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Source Record ID: Collections: 2002.537.4

Keyword: BARRACKS CHILDREN (4-12 YEARS) CHILDREN/YOUTH CONCENTRATION CAMPS GORNJA RIJEKA PRISONERS YUGOSLAVS
Photo Designation: LABOR CAMPS/MINOR CAMPS -- Yugoslavia -- Gornja Rijeka