Obj. ID: 40418 Concentration camp Danica in Koprivnica, Croatia
Memorial Name
Danica Memorial
Who is Commemorated?
Inmates of Danica concentration camp.
Description:
The memorial consists of the remains of the chemical factory Danica and the First Yugoslav Machine Screw Factory, where the camp was situated. There are the remains of the camp’s wall, a memorial wall with אקמ plaques listing the inmates, and a concrete tower “evoking a watch tower and gallows” (according to the information plaque on the site).
Inscription
On a glass plaque in the far end of the memorial wall:
Popis logoraša u logoru Danica
u Koprivnici, 1941. – 1942.
Više of 4300 imena zatočenih u logoru
Danica dokunentirano je u povijesnim
izvorima i sublimirano u všedesetljetnim
znanstvenim istraživanjima povjesničara
dr. sc. Zdravka Dizdara. Popis je izrađen
abecednim slijedom, a prezimena su
dana etimološkim uz navođenje godine
rođenja i naznaku pojedinih neutvrđenih
podataka.
Translation: List of inmates in the Danica camp in Koprivnica, 1941-1942. More than 4,300 names of detainees in the Danica camp were documented in historical sources and investigated in the decades-long scientific research of the historian Dr. Sc. Zdravko Dizdar. The list is made in alphabetical order, and surnames are given etymologically with the year of birth and indication of certain unspecified data.
Commissioned by
The Republic of Yugoslavia
A concentration camp was established in the chemical factory “Danica d.d.” on April 15, 1941, and existed until September 1942. About 5,600 people were interned in the camp, including Jews from Zagreb, Serbs, Roma, Bosnian Muslims, and Croatian communists, most of them were transferred to the death camps in Jadovno and Jasenovac.
The statue of a partisan scout made by the sculptor Ivan Sabolić was unveiled on July 4, 1960 (see here). In 1981, a memorial was created according to the design of the architect Lenko Pleština. In 2021, the original plaques with five-pointed stars and partial lists of inmates were replaced by new plaques with the names of 4,300 inmates collected by Zdravko Dizdar.