 Witness To
Jasenovac's Hell
From the book's editor: The story of the Jasenovac death camp is only now beginning to be told. While CNN aired a report on the 1999 trial of Dinko Sakic, one of the camp commanders, the American public still remains uninformed about the camp in which hundreds of thousands of Serbs, Jews, and Gypsies died. I recently spoke with an 85-year-old Jewish woman from Belgrade who lost 56 family members at Jasenovac. She was the only survivor. In the area of northern Bosnia and what was Krajina, virtually every family was devastated by internments in the Jasenovac prison camp and the subsequent slaughter that happened there. On April 21, 1945, nine days before Hitler committed suicide, and as Allies moved toward Berlin, the Ustasha worked to destroy evidence of the camp and witnesses to the horror. They blew up camp buildings and burned the 760 surviving women until well into the night. On the morning of April 22, 1,060 men and boys broke down the doors of their prison, fought the Ustasha guards with their bare hands, and ran for their lives. Eighty survived. Ilija Ivanovic, a retired teacher, was one of the eighty and is now one of eight witnesses who still lives to tell the story of the escape. Read a sample chapter: The Dam of Death |
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