Obj. ID: 51584 Graves of the victims of Đakovo concentration camp in the Jewish cemetery in Đakovo, Croatia, Late 1940s
Memorial Name
No official name
Who is Commemorated?
Women and children who died in the Đakovo concentration camp in 1941 and 1942.
Description:
Originally, graves arranged in 21 rows, were marked by metal markers bearing the name of the deceased. In 2011, new granite markers were installed. Each marker contains the name of the victims, their age, the name of the home city, and the Star of David. Individual tombstones erected by relatives are typical of the time of their erection.
Inscription
Each marker and tombstone have individual inscriptions in Croatian.
Commissioned by
Jewish Community of Bosnia and Herzegovina (2011)
A concentration camp for Jews and Serbs was established in Đakovo on December 2, 1941, and existed until July 1942, when its detainees were transported to Jasenovac. As many as 3,800 women and children – mostly from Bosnia and Herzegovina, but also from Zagreb and other cities and countries – were interned at the camp over the course of its existence, and at least 566 Jewish women and children died in the camp. Their bodies were brought to the Jewish cemetery. Stjepan Kolb (1886 – 1945), the non-Jewish gravedigger, buried them in separate graves and recorded their names, so that the graves could be identified after the war.
After the war, 471 metal grave markers were placed on the graves. In the subsequent years, 99 graves got “regular” tombstones erected by the relatives of the deceased.
In 2011, original grave marks were replaced by new ones by the Jewish Community of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with the support of the Federations of Jewish Communities of Croatia and Serbia. Five original post-war tin grave markers from the Đakovo cemetery were donated to Yad Vashem.
Groblje žrtava sabirnog logora u Đakovu (Sarajevo: The Jewish Community of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2011)