Concentration camps in the Independent State of Croatia

During World War II, numerous concentration camps existed in the Independent State of Croatia. Most of them were operated by the Croatian Ustaša authorities, but some of them were operated by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.^[1]

Ustaša-operated camps

Camp	Location	Operational	number of prisoners	number of deaths
Jasenovac (I–IV)	Jasenovac, Slavonia	23 August 1941 – 22 April 1945	100,000+	c. 100,000^{[Note 1]}
Stara Gradiška (Jasenovac V)	Stara Gradiška, Slavonia	1941–1945	12,790+	9,586+
Đakovo	Đakovo, Slavonia	1 December 1941 – 7 July 1942	3,000	at least 516 or 650
Tenja	Tenja, Osijek, Slavonia	March 1942–August 1942	3,000 Jews
Sisak	Sisak, Banovina	August 1942–January 1943	6,693 children, mostly Serbs	at least 1152 or 1630
Gospić	Gospić, Lika	June–August 1941^[2]		42,246^[3]
Jadovno	Gospić, Lika	1941–August 1941^[4]		10,000–68,000
Lepoglava	Lepoglava, northern Croatia	1941–1945	2,000+ political	at least 961 youngsters and 80 other inmates
Danica	Koprivnica, northern Croatia	15 April 1941–July 1941^[5]	5,600
Lobor	Lobor, northern Croatia	9 August 1941–November 1942	2,000+ women and children, mostly Jews and Serbs	200+
Kerestinec	Kerestinec, Zagreb	1941–1945
Jastrebarsko	Jastrebarsko, Zagreb	1942–		1,500 children ^[6]
Slana	Pag, Dalmatia	June 1941–August 1941^[7]	16,000	4–12,000 or 8,500
Metajna	Pag, Dalmatia	1941–1945
Kruščica (Vitez)	Vitez, central Bosnia	1941–Late September 1941^[8]		3000
Gornja Rijeka	Gornja Rijeka, northern Croatia	1941–1942	400+	at least 140

^ These numbers vary widely, and were frequently manipulated by various sides during Yugoslavia's history, see Jasenovac concentration camp.

^ "Camps in the Independent State of Croatia". Jasenovac Memorial Area. Retrieved 31 December 2012.
^ Radovi (Filozofski Fakultet Zagreb. Humanisticke i Drustvene Znanosti). Zavod. 2007. Veći koncentracijski logor bio je Gospić (lipanj - kolovoz 1941)...
^ Israeli, Raphael (4 March 2013). The Death Camps of Croatia: Visions and Revisions, 1941-1945. Transaction Publishers. p. 77. ISBN 978-1-4128-4930-2.
^ Hilberg 2003, p. 760.
^ Hilberg 2003, p. 759: "Surviving inmates transferred to Jadovno"
^ Rade Šegrt (26 August 2010). "Prvi put obilježeno stradanje djece". Nezavisne novine. Retrieved 25 September 2010.
^ Hilberg 2003, p. 759: "Closed August 1941, when the Italians occupied the island. Men were sent on to Jadovno, women to Kruščica"
^ Hilberg 2003, p. 760: "Surviving inmates to Jasenovac"

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