Description of the attraction
Memorial Jasenovac - a museum opened on the site of a concentration camp created in 1941 by the Croatian fascists (Ustaši). The camp was located in an area 60 km from Zagreb.
At the end of the 20th century, during several Balkan wars, the territory of the Jasenovac camp was abandoned. In 1991, the museum documents were taken out by the former deputy director of the museum, Simo Brdar, to Bosnia and Herzegovina. They were kept there until 2001, until they were transferred to the Holocaust Memorial Museum (USA). In New York, in the spring of 2005, a monument to those killed in Jasenovac was unveiled. Outside the Balkans, this is the only monument in memory of the victims of the Croatian fascists.
The museum itself was renovated and opened in 2006. It now houses an exhibition designed by the Croatian architect Helena Paver Njiric. For her work, she received the main prize at the Zagreb Architecture Salon in 2006. The exposition consists of glass panels with the names of the dead people carved on them.
Also on the territory of the Memorial in memory of the victims there is a monument "Stone Flower", the author of the work is the sculptor Bogdan Bogdanovich.
