Antun Najžer
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Antun Najžer, or Nadžer in some sources,[1] was a Croatian physician and member of the fascist Ustaše movement who served as the commander of the Sisak children's concentration camp in the Independent State of Croatia during World War II.[2] He was dubbed the "Croatian Mengele" by survivors[3] due to conducting medical experiments on his victims.[4] For these crimes, in September 1946, he was sentenced to execution by a firing squad.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ White, Joseph Robert (2018). "Sisak I and II". In Megargee, Geoffrey P.; White, Joseph R. (eds.). Camps and Ghettos under European Regimes Aligned with Nazi Germany. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945. Vol. III. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. p. 73. ISBN 978-0-25302-386-5.
- ^ Matejcic, Marinella (6 February 2015). "The Ustashi Legacy: Remembering the Children's Concentration Camp in Sisak". globalvoices.com. Global Voices. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
- ^ Milekic, Sven (6 October 2014). "WWII Children's Concentration Camp Remembered in Croatia". Balkan Insight. Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN). Retrieved 3 March 2018.
"We had a similar treatment [in Auschwitz] as children in the Ustasa-German camp in Sisak," said the Croatian-born Lustig. "They had doctor [Antun] Najzer [the camp's commander], we had the infamous doctor Mengele," he said.
- ^ "Logori u Sisku i Capragu" [Camps in Sisak and Caprag]. jadovno.com (in Serbian). 2 September 2014. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
- ^ Ognjenović, Gorana; Jozelić, Jasna, eds. (2016). Revolutionary Totalitarianism, Pragmatic Socialism, Transition: Volume One, Tito's Yugoslavia, Stories Untold. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 75. ISBN 9781137597434.
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- Anti-Serbian sentiment
- Croatian fascists
- Croatian irredentism
- Croatian people convicted of crimes against humanity
- Croatian people convicted of war crimes
- Croatian physicians
- Executed Croatian collaborators with Fascist Italy
- Executed Croatian collaborators with Nazi Germany
- Executed mass murderers
- Genocide of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia perpetrators
- Holocaust perpetrators in Yugoslavia
- People executed by Yugoslavia by firing squad
- People from Sisak
- Persecution of Eastern Orthodox Christians
- Ustaše concentration camp personnel