Jasenovac is a municipality in Central Croatia, in the southern part of the Sisak-Moslavina county at the confluence of the river Una into Sava. The municipality's population was 2,391 in 2001. A municipality or general-purpose district (compare with: special-purpose district) is an administrative local area generally composed of a clearly defined territory and commonly referring to a city, town, or village government. ... Categories: Stub | Counties of Croatia ... Una can mean: Una, a river in Bosnia and Croatia, tributary to Sava Una, a city in Bahia, Brazil Una, a district of Himachal Pradesh, India Una-, a purported SI prefix. ... Sava also Save (German Save, Hungarian Száva) is a river in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia, a right side tributary of Danube at Belgrade. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ...
The name means "ash tree" or "ash forest" in Croatian, the area being ringed by such a forest. Species Many, see text. ...
It's most (in)famous for naming the Jasenovac complex of WWII concentration camps. Jasenovac was the largest concentration and extermination camp in Croatia during the World War II. It was established by the Ustaša regime of the Independent State of Croatia in August 1941. ...
During the World War II Jasenovac was a concentracion camp organaized by Croatian goverment, for Serbs, Judes and other minorities. In thet camp over 700 000 Serbs were brutaly killed.
The Jasenovac Research Institute is a non-profit human rights organization and research institute committed to establishing the truth about the Holocaust in Yugoslavia and dedicated to the search for justice for its victims.
As scholarship and awareness of the Holocaust grew rapidly in the 1990's, information on Jasenovac and the genocides perpetrated against Serbs, Jews and Romas in Yugoslavia during World War II was absent from this discussion.
New York City is proud to join the Jasenovac Research Institute in commemorating the Holocaust in Yugoslavia with a ceremony at the Holocaust park in Brooklyn.
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