
In August 1941, the Ustaša founded the first two camps in the camp complex located in Jasenovac, which is 100 kilometers (62 miles) southeast of Zagreb. Jasenovac I (Krapje) was located near the village of Krapje, approximately 7 kilometers (4.4 miles) northwest of Jasenovac. Jasenovac II (Bročice) was located near the village of Bročice, approximately 5 kilometers (3 miles) northeast of Jasenovac, close to the Jasenovac-Novska Road and the Veliki Strug River. These subcamps were built on the marshy terrain of Lonjsko polje, a region that experienced the seasonal flooding of the Sava, Veliki Strug, Trebeža, and Lonja Rivers. Survivors described the Krapje and Bročice camps as each having three to four wooden barracks raised on stilts that housed inmates and one raised wooden barrack for camp administrators and guards. Survivor Otto Langfelder recalled that Bročice was separated internally into compounds for Jews and Serbs.1 A high barbed-wire fence and manned guard towers surrounded...
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