(22 Apr 2025)
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Jasenovac – 22 April 2025
1. Sunrise over monument called “Flower” symbolizing victims escape from the camp on 22 April 1945
2. Various of monument
3. Queue of people arriving to mark the anniversary ceremony
4. Hill at the memorial
5. People arriving
6. Croatian leaders
7. Monument
8. Survivors of the camp in the first row
9. The wooden pit gate where the Nazis threw victims (inscription on a plate – a poem “Pit” by Ivan Goran Kovacic)
10. Survivors of Jasenovac camp laying flowers at the memorial
11. President of Croatia, Zoran Milanovic, laying flowers
12. Milanovic pays respects
13. Prime Minister of Croatia, Andrej Plenkovic, along with government ministers, lays flower
14. Plenkovic and government ministers crossing themselves, paying respects
15. Survivors of the camp, along others, in a moment of silence
16. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Slavko Milanovic, Jasenovac camp survivor:
“We were out in the open sky, barbed wire all around us, that’s where we spent some 25 days. We were eating grass, we grabbed grass and ate it, we ate it all, only dirt remained. The Ustashas (Croatian Nazi collaborators) got up early, somewhere around 8 or 9 o’clock and separated children from their mothers. As my mother saw them coming, we were sitting below and they were coming up from a hill above, she was hiding us under the blankets that we were sleeping on. That happened that day, and every following day. So I stayed with my mother, they didn’t separate us. My sister was more fragile than me, she died right there – in my mother’s hands.”
17. Various of candles and flowers
18. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Mile Vukmirovic, Jasenovac camp survivor, lost 50 members of wider family:
“Sometimes I come here, I pay someone to wait for me in the car, close to the border (Croatian-Bosnian border) and I come here – and then I feel calm. I sleep fine next ten days. But today, I could not, I woke up at 3am, and I could not. It was a horrific experience (being detained in the camp). The only ones who can talk about it are those who have been there – they can say ‘I know what happened – I was there.’ It was a horror. Last time I saw my father was at Mount Kozara (across the border in Bosnia), and last time he was seen by someone else is here in the camp. His name is listed on the monument – I can’t go there, I get upset.”
19. Train that Nazi’s used to bring the detainees to the camp
20. Barbed wire on a train window
21. Train carriages
22. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Milinko Cekic, Jasenovac camp survivor:
“They (Ustasha) forced us to walk towards the train station in Bastaji, and pushed us into the cattle wagons. They locked us in there, and the train moved somewhere.”
23. Jasenovac camp site
24. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Milinko Cekic, Jasenovac camp survivor:
“I don’t remember even being hungry or thirsty, but there was both of those. We used to drink water from that little lake there, usually there were dead bodies floating in that lake. “
25. Leaves on the surface of the lake
26. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Milinko Cekic, Jasenovac camp survivor:
"I used to have such nightmares, every night. It was so hard to survive that. I was constantly hunted by some people who didn’t look like people in those dreams. They were more like animals, some scarecrows or something. Yes, that was all a consequence of what I have been through (his detention in the camp).”
27. Jasenovac camp field
STORYLINE:
Only 92 people survived the breakout attempt out of some 600 men, according to the Jasenovac memorial center data.
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