The Shoah (1939–1945)
Destruction of the Jewish Community of Višegrad
1941·Višegrad
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The few Jewish families of Višegrad, on the Drina, are arrested by the Ustaše authorities and led to the camps where they disappear.
Višegrad, on the Drina at the foot of its Ottoman bridge, was home to a few Sephardic Jewish families who had settled there for generations, living by trade and river transport. The annexation of Bosnia by the Ustasha State delivered them to the racial decrees of spring: they lost their property, their rights, and freedom of movement. The regime's militia arrested them during the summer and autumn, in a region where massacres were simultaneously striking the Serbian population on both banks. The Jews of Višegrad were taken to the camps of the new State and never returned. The Jewish presence in the city came to an end.
- 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.