The Shoah (1939–1945)
Annihilation of the Jewish community of Zenica
1941·Zenica
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The Jews of Zenica are dispossessed of their workshops and businesses, then arrested and handed over to the camps opened by the Ustashi regime.
Zenica, a steelmaking city in the Bosna valley, was home to a small Jewish community engaged in trade and crafts around the factory and the mines. The Ustasha regime applied its racial decrees to them within the first weeks: workshops and shops were handed over to appointed commissioners, families were marked and stripped of their rights. Arrests followed during the summer, carried out by the regime's militia, and the Jewish residents of Zenica were led to the camps opened in Slavonia. The community, already small in number, disappeared almost entirely and did not reconstitute itself after the war.
- 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.