Donja Gradina
The Public Institution
Memorial Area Donja Gradina
Manager: Simo Brdar
Donja Gradina – 79290 Kozarska Dubica
Republic of Srpska / Bosnia and Herzegovina
Donja Gradina is the biggest mass execution site within the Jasenovac concentration camp complex. At least one half out of the total number of the Jasenovac's victims was killed in Donja Gradina, in the most monstrous manner. Gradina had continuously been an integral part of the Jasenovac camp all the while it existed, as the site for mass execution and the burial ground, where the Ustasha carried out genocide against the Serbs, the Jews and the Romanies. (See: Bishop Atanasije Jevtić: Jasenovac — A Martyred Town,
1990)
The memorial area of Jasenovac, including Donja Gradina, was established in 1968. After the breakup of SFRY, Donja Gradina and the sites on the right banks of the Una and the Sava remained in the Republic of Srpska/Bosnia and Herzegovina . The national parliament of the Republic of Srpska enacted a law on the memorial area of Donja Gradina in November 1996. Today it is a public institution with eight employees.
There are nine burial grounds with 105 mass graves on the area of 156 hectares. This fact testifies that Donja Gradina deserves the highest level of scientific and historical research as well as the media attention.
Research Papers (in English)
- The application of remote sensing and IT in research of mass graves in the system of Jasenovac ustasha camps
By Jasmin Babić, Tomas Čupković and Nebojsa Bosiočić (PDF - 2330Kb)
Remote sensing enables a large amount of qualitative new data about the Earth's surface to be obtained. It also creates precise geodetic bases in a new, efficient and economic way. It can also be applied to the discovery of mass graves in the system of Croatian ustasha genocide camps. This research demands an interdisciplinary approach and a methodology by which we can find the precise location and make a detailed analysis of any individual grave. - Georadar test examinations on the place of mass execution - Donja Gradina
By Spomenko J. Mihajlović, Vasilije Belobrković and Vladimir Miletić (PDF - 460Kb) - Preliminary Project Donja Gradina
By Miroslav Marković, Jasmin Babić and Nebojsa Bosiočić (PDF - 85Kb)
Films and Photos
- Donja Gradina 2004: recent shots
- Cameraman: Dušan Krstić
- Editor: Goran Kovačević
- Production: „Svetlopisno odeljenje“, Belgrade.
- „Donja Gradina Today“
- Photos: Petra Pavlović, „Svetlopisno odeljenje“, Belgrade. 2004.