Stara Gradiška concentration camp

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Stara Gradiška was the fifth subcamp of the Jasenovac concentration camp, established in 1941 to the east of the main camp near the village of Stara Gradiška. The camp was specially constructed for women and children of Jews, Gypsies, Serbs, and guerrillas.

Eventually more than 50,000 men, women and children were incarcerated by the Ustaše in the medium camp and guarded by Germans and a few female Ustaše troops. All of the women guards were sisters or wives of the male guards and they were known throughout the camp for their cruelty. Nada Tanić Luburić, sister of the first commandant of Jasenovac Maks Luburić, and wife of the second was personally pointed out as one of the diabolical female Ustaše guards in Stara Gradiška.

The camp was liberated in April 1945 by the Red Army.

It is not to be confused with the prison in Stara Gradiška that existed after 1945.