Jasenovac concentration and extermination camp

Jasenovac was a concentration and extermination camp established in the village of the same name by the authorities of the Independent State of Croatia in occupied Yugoslavia during World War II. The concentration camp, one of the ten largest in Europe, was established and operated by the governing Ustaše regime, which was the only quisling regime in occupied Europe to operate extermination camps solely on their own for Jews and other ethnic groups. It grew quickly into the third largest concentration camp in EuropeIt was established in August 1941 in marshland at the confluence of the Sava and Una rivers near the village of Jasenovac, and was dismantled in April 1945.