Jasenovac Camp Archive

🇭🇷 U jasenovačkom logoru za vjerske potrebe pripadnika islamske zajednice brinuo se imam. Potvrdio je to komisiji za istraživanje zločina Jakob Danon 26. svibnja 1945. u Zagrebu, nabrajajući različite logorske dužnosnike, među kojima pod brojem 14.: "Vojniković Tahir, muslimanski svećenik, prilična dobričina, koji je svojim muslimanima-zatočenicima bio dobar, a nama drugima nije škodio. Koljač nije bio." HDA, ZKRZ-Zh, kut. 231, 9947-10126, izjava Jakoba Danona. 🇬🇧 In the Jasenovac camp, an imam took care of the religious needs of members of the Islamic community. Jakob Danon confirmed this to the crime investigation commission on May 26, 1945 in Zagreb, listing various camp officials, including number 14: "Vojniković Tahir, a Muslim priest, quite a good man, who was good to his Muslim prisoners, but did not harm the rest of us. He was not a killer" HDA, ZKRZ-Zh, box. 231, 9947-10126, statement of Jakob Danon.

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🇭🇷 Kad bi se časnici digli od stola i otišli, mi smo dobili iz kuhinje ostatke pečenke i drugih finih jestvina. To je bio rajski užitak, nakon čega smo se razilazili svatko u svoj brlog po mračnom logoru u kome je jedva sijala tu i tamo po koja žarulja, prisjetio se svojih dana u logoru skladatelj Natko Devčić: Logorska kuhinja u koju su dežurni zatočenici iz svake barake imali dnevnu obvezu donositi namirnice (krumpir, kukuruzno i pšenično brašno, grah, itd) i vodu za pripremu obroka. 🇬🇧 When the officers got up from the table and left, we got leftover roast beef and other fine dishes from the kitchen. It was a heavenly pleasure, after which we each dispersed to our lairs in the dark camp, in which a light bulb barely lit here and there, the composer Natko Devčić recalled his days in the camp: The camp kitchen where the prisoners from each barrack are on duty had a daily obligation to bring food (potatoes, corn and wheat flour, beans, etc.) and water for meal preparation.

🇭🇷 Posjet logoru u Jasenovcu u svojem je dnevniku zabilježio i tajnik papinog izaslanika Giuseppe Masucci. "Konclogor u Jasenovcu ne doimlje se tako strašno kako mi je bilo reče- no", piše Masucci. Zatočenici stanuju u prostranim barakama u kojima se loži. Bolesnici su smješteni u posebnu bolnicu, gdje se za njih skrbe liječnici-zatočenici Židovi.Razni stručnjaci odvjetnici, tehničari, slikari- ili rade u svojim strukama ili su zaposleni u uredima", naveo je Masucci. Ratni dnevnik vatikanskog diplomata u Zagrebu, Glas koncila, Zagreb, br. 51, 17.prosinca 1989. 🇬🇧 The visit to the camp in Jasenovac was recorded in his diary by the secretary of the papal envoy, Giuseppe Masucci. "The concentration camp in Jasenovac does not seem as terrible as I was told," writes Masucci.  Detainees live in spacious barracks where fires are lit.  The patients are placed in a special hospital, where they are cared for by doctors-Jewish prisoners. Various experts - lawyers, technicians, painters - either work in their professions or are employed in offices," said Masucci. War diary of a Vatican diplomat in Zagreb, Glas Koncila, Zagreb, no.  51, December 17, 1989.

🇭🇷 Svjedočenje Riste Stjepanovića iz Janje, u općini Bijeljina u BiH, prijeratnoga "aktivnoga jugoslavenskoga oficira", kojega su uhitili ustaše 2. kolovoza 1941.doslovce izjavio: "Zapovjednik straže u logoru bio je u to vrijeme bivši jugoslavenski narednik Prpić, koji je sa nama zatočenicima postupao tako dobro, kako mu je u danim prilikama bilo moguće. On nije dozvoljavao da u sam logor ulaze ustaške posade, i kada je bio prisutan on ih je uvijek tjerao, pa u njegovom prisustvu nije nitko tučen." 🇬🇧 The testimony of Rista Stjepanović from Janja, in the municipality of Bijeljina in BiH, a pre-war "active Yugoslav officer", who was arrested by the Ustasha on August 2, 1941, literally stated: "The commander of the guard in the camp at that time was the former Yugoslav sergeant Prpić, who treated us detainees as well as he could under the circumstances. He did not allow Ustasha crews to enter the camp itself, and when he was present he always chased them away, so no one was beaten in his presence."

🇭🇷 Na bijeg su se odlučili i zatočenici iz kožare. Filip Schleifer (rođen 1909., živio u Zagrebu, Martićeva 47), bio je odveden u Jasenovac u rujnu 1941. Prvo je bio u Krapju, a potom u logoru na ciglani. U veljači 1942. premješten je u kožaru u Jasenovcu. Prema njegovim riječima, zatočenicima je rečeno da će 22. travnja ići u Sisak. No oni su se razbježali - prema njegovim riječima, 38 ih je uspjelo pobjeći. 📄 HDA, ZKRZ-GUZ, kut. 7, mikrofilm Z-2937 🇬🇧 Detainees from the tannery also decided to escape. Filip Schleifer (born in 1909, lived in Zagreb, Martićeva 47), was taken to Jasenovac in September 1941. He was first in Krapje, and then in the camp at the brickyard. In February 1942, he was transferred to a tannery in Jasenovac. According to him, the detainees were told that they would go to Sisak on April 22. But they scattered - according to him, 38 of them managed to escape. 📄 HDA, ZKRZ-GUZ, box 7, microfilm Z-2937

🇭🇷 U bolnici u Jasenovcu od posljedica ranjavanja oporavljao se ustaški poručnik Bože Jelić iz Trna kod Širokog Brijega. Prema njegovu svjedočenju, zatočenici su probili ustašku stražu na istočnoj strani logora i otvorili izlazna vrata. Ustaše su brzo krenuli u potjeru. »Većina logoraša nije uspjela umaknuti. Nekoliko desetaka koji su uspjeli pobjeći pridružila se srpskim partizanima. Neki logoraši su počinili samoubojstvo. Preostalim logorašima, koji nisu bježali iz Jasenovca, ustaše nisu pravili probleme i ništa im se nije dogodilo«, ustvrdio je Jelić. 📚Ivica Karamatić, Svjedočenje iz radnog logora Jasenovac, u: Politički zatvorenik, 2011., br. 235. 🇬🇧 In the hospital in Jasenovac, Ustasha lieutenant Bože Jelić from Trno near Široki Brijeg was recovering from his injuries. According to his testimony, the detainees broke through the Ustasa guard on the eastern side of the camp and opened the exit door. The Ustashas quickly gave chase. »Most of the inmates did not manage to escape. A few dozen who managed to escape joined the Serbian partisans. Some inmates committed suicide. The Ustashas did not cause any problems to the remaining camp inmates, who did not flee from Jasenovac, and nothing happened to them," asserted Jelić. 📚Ivica Karamatić, Testimony from the Jasenovac labor camp, in: Political Prisoner, 2011, no. 235.

🇬🇧 This photo is often used to illustrate the crimes in the Jasenovac camp, although its direct connection with Jasenovac has also not been proven. Not only are the clothes and shoes of "Jasenovac prisoners" questionable, but it is significant that the photo was published in "Vjesnik" no. 25, from 19. May 1945, after the already mentioned Partisan massacre in Sisak. And it is a striking coincidence that Vjesnik's title mentions almost the same number of victims of crime, which was reported in one of its last reports by the Ustasha State Circuit Station Zagreb. In May 1945, they warned that during the entry into Sisak, the Partisans killed about 400 citizens

🇭🇷 Ova fotografija se često koristi za ilustraciju o zločinima u jasenovačkom logoru, premda njezina izravna veza s Jasenovcem također nije ničim dokazana. Ne samo da su upitni odjeća i obuća "jasenovačkih zatočenika", nego je znakovito da je fotografija objavljena u »Vjesniku« br. 25, od 19. svibnja 1945, dakle nakon već spomenutoga partizanskog masakra u Sisku. I zapanjujuća je podudarnost da Vjesnikov naslov spominje gotovo isti broj žrtava zločina, o kojemu je u jednome od svojih posljednjih javljanja izvijestila ustaška Državna krugovalna postaja Zagreb. Ustaše su 6. svibnja 1945. upozorili da su prigodom ulaska u Sisak partizani ubili oko 400 građana.