Deutsch / Српски A two-day expedition was organized recently by the Association “Jadovno 1941” from Banja Luka with the aim to locate the site on the island of Page where the Ustashas, soldiers of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH), slaughtered 91 children under the age of fifteen, 293 women and 407 men in the night between 14 and 15 August, 1941. The members of the expedition had only few photographs taken by Italian soldiers in early September 1941 and scarce written material which only roughly describes the location of the execution site. However, a photograph from the same time period taken from the very location of the execution site,

Ћирилица On August 21. 1941, the Ustasha complex of the Gospic-Jadovno-Pag death camps, which was the forerunner of the notorious Jasenovac concentration camp, was closed, the Jadovno Association Banjaluka reminds. “Only about 2,000 survivors arrived in Jasenovac on August 21, 1941 through Jastrebarsko,” the association head, Dusan Bastasic. Bastasic recalls that the detainees arrived at the Jasenovac railway station at 7 AM, where the Ustahas from Lika handed them over to the criminals from the 17th Ustasha Company. “One hour upon their arrival, and after frisking and interrogating them, the detainees were forced out of the wagons, sorted two by two, tied with a wire and taken towards the camp

Ћирилица  Rory Yeomans Yeomans is using the association’s archive, working on his new book about the terror in the Independent State of Croatia Rory Yeomans, British historian, has spent the past ten days in Banja Luka ( Rory Yeomans). On the invitation of the association, the esteemed historian is researching “Jadovno 1941.” association’s archive, for his upcoming book on terror in Independent State of Croatia, titled The Utopia of Terror: Life, Death and Everyday Experience in the Ustasha State. Rory Yeomans is the author of Visions of Annihilation: the Ustasha Regime and the Cultural Politics of Fascism, 1941-1945. (2013) and co-author of Racial Science in Hitler’s New Europe, 1938-1945.(2013). In

Ћирилица  Descendants of victims in front of the school in Metajna An Israeli TV crew was prevented from filming a documentary about Ustaša concentration camps established at the beginning of the Second World War in Yugoslavia (1941) on the island of Pag in the bay of Slana and in Metajna. On Saturday 5th of September, the residents of Metajna filed a complaint with the local police regarding “unauthorised” filming, as a result of which the police escorted the Israeli TV crew away from the island of Pag. “This is yet another in a string of examples which show the consequences of the fact that the Croatian people, unlike the Germans