The Shoah (1939–1945)
Annihilation of the Jewish community of Sisak
1941·Sisak
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The Jews of Sisak are subjected to racial decrees in the first weeks of the Ustaši regime, then arrested and led to camps opened downstream of the Save.
Sisak, an industrial city at the confluence of the Kupa and the Save, was home to a Jewish community engaged in trade and crafts. Placed under the authority of the Ustasha regime, it was subjected to the racial decrees promulgated in the weeks following the proclamation of the new State: dispossession, marking, professional exclusion. The roundups began during the summer, carried out by the militia, and continued in successive waves. The Jewish inhabitants of Sisak were led to the camps opened downstream along the Save. The city also housed, later in the war, a camp where children rounded up from the Kozara were imprisoned. Of the Jewish community, almost nothing remained.
- Period :
- The Shoah (1939–1945)
- Type :
- Shoah
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Croatie
Jaša Romano, *Jevreji Jugoslavije* ; Ivo Goldstein, *Holokaust u Zagrebu*.