Stara Gradiška prison
Stara Gradiška prison is a former prison at Stara Gradiška, Croatia.
The prison site was first established in 1799.[1]
During World War II, the former Austro-Hungarian fortress was used by the Ustaša regime as the Stara Gradiška concentration camp, a part of the Jasenovac complex, the largest extermination camp in occupied Yugoslavia.
From 1945 until the late 1980s the prison at Stara Gradiška held political prisoners of the communist regime.[2][3]
The detention facility was shut down by the Republic of Croatia in 1990, a decision made formal in February 1991.[4] However, from October 1991 until July 1993, the prison was again re-opened by the Krajina Serbs, who captured and detained numerous Croats in the facility during the Croatian War of Independence.[5]
The municipality plans to turn the site into a museum.[6] The Catholic Church plans to build a memorial church in the area.[7]
References
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- ↑ Ramet, Sabrina P. 2006. The Three Yugoslavias: State-Building And Legitimation, 1918-2005. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, p. 307.
- ↑ Mesić, Stipe. 2004. The Demise of Yugoslavia: A Political Memoir. New York: Central European University Press, p. 62.
- ↑ 6 13.02.1991 Odluka o ukidanju Kazneno-popravnog doma u Staroj Gradiški, Narodne novine, accessed 2011-12-28
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Zatvor Stara Gradiška uskoro muzej
- ↑ Stara Gradiška: Blagoslovljen temeljni kamen spomen-crkve za svećenike žrtve komunizma
