The Shoah (1939–1945)
Annihilation of the Jewish community of Rogatica
1941·Rogatica
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The small Sephardic community of Rogatica is rounded up in the first months of the Ustaša regime and handed over to camps opened in Slavonia.
Rogatica, a small town in eastern Bosnia, was home to a small but ancient Sephardic community, whose members lived from local trade and had been integrated into the life of the town since the Ottoman period. The racial decrees of the Ustasha regime stripped them of their possessions within the first weeks, and the militia arrested them during the summer, in a region where violence was simultaneously striking the Serbian population of the surrounding villages. The Jewish families of Rogatica were led to the camps opened in Slavonia and disappeared. The community, one of the smallest in Bosnia, ceased to exist.
- 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.