Destruction of the Jewish community of Prijedor

Prijedor, in northwestern Bosnia at the foot of the Kozara, was home to a Jewish community of merchants and artisans established since the Austro-Hungarian era. The Ustasha regime applied its racial decrees from the moment the new state was proclaimed: businesses confiscated, accounts frozen, identifying insignia, restrictions on residence. Arrests were carried out by the local militia during the summer and autumn, in a region where operations against the Serbian population and the partisan networks were already filling the camps. The Jewish families of Prijedor were transferred to camps opened in Slavonia, where most were murdered.