In the former Austro-Hungarian garrison town of Stara Gradiška, located 124 kilometers (almost 77 miles) southeast of Zagreb and 30 kilometers (18 miles) southeast of Jasenovac proper on the Sava River, the Ustaša established the Jasenovac V camp at the end of 1941. The camp was in a former fortress and principally held women and children. Beginning in May 1941, the Ustaša police imprisoned political and “racial” persecutees from the surrounding communities in the garrison barracks. A November 1941 edict issued by Ustaša supreme leader (Poglavnik) Ante Pavelić, “Legal Provision on Deporting Undesirable and Dangerous Persons to Enforced Detention in Assembly and Labor Camps,” formed the basis for the imprisonment of Serbs and Jews in Croatian camps, including Stara Gradiška.1 Toward the end of 1941, Stara Gradiška was incorporated into Jasenovac as camp V. The prison was subsequently moved to Hrvatska Mitrovica (today: Sremska Mitrovica). As part of the Jasenovac system, the camp was...