The Shoah (1939–1945)
Annihilation of the Jewish community of Bihać
1941·Bihać
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The community of Bihać, in the Krajina, was rounded up by the Ustaše regime in the first months and led to the camps of the new State.
Bihać, on the Una river in the Bosnian Krajina, had a modest Jewish community, primarily mercantile, present in the city since the Austro-Hungarian administration. The racial decrees of the Ustasha regime struck it during the very first weeks: loss of civil rights, confiscation of property, marking. The regime's militia carried out arrests during the summer, in a region where the massacres of the Serbian population had begun as early as spring. The Jewish families of Bihać were taken to the camps opened in Slavonia and never returned. The community disappeared entirely.
- Period :
- The Shoah (1939–1945)
- Type :
- Shoah
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Bosnie-Herzégovine
Jaša Romano, *Jevreji Jugoslavije* ; Zvi Loker (dir.), *Pinkas Hakehillot Yugoslavia*, Yad Vashem.