TheLobor concentration camp orLoborgrad camp (Croatian:Koncentracijski logor Lobor) was aconcentration camp established inLobor,Independent State of Croatia (modern-dayCroatia) in the deserted palace ofKeglevich family. It was established on 9 August 1941, mostly for Serb and Jewish women and children. The camp was established and operated byUstaše, with 16 of its guards being members of the localVolksdeutsche community. Its inmates were subjected to systematic torture, robbery and murder of "undisciplined" individuals. All younger female inmates of the Lobor camp were subjected to rapes. More than 2,000 people were inmates of this camp and at least 200 died in it. All surviving children and women were transported toAuschwitz concentration camp in August 1942 where they all were killed.
The Lobor concentration camp was established on 9 August 1941, mostly for Serb and Jewish children and women.[2][3][4] The camp was established in the deserted palace of the Keglevich family.[5] It was established, operated, and controlled by the Ustasha Surveillance Service subordinated tothe Main Ustaša Headquarters and the guards were members of the German ethnic community (Volksdeutsche), 16 in total.[6] The maximum capacity of this camp was 800 prisoners.[7]
Because of the significant proportion of children among its prisoners, this camp was categorized as a children's concentration camp, along with Jablanac, Mlaka, Bročica brickyard, Uštica, Sisak, Jastrebarsko and Gornja Rijeka.[8] According to some sources, the total number of children held in concentration camps in Croatia in 1942 was at least 24,000.[9] The first contingent of inmates numbering 1,300 people was transported to Lobor camp fromKruščica concentration camp.[10] The number of women and children inmates in Lobor camp reached 1,500.[11] All younger female inmates of the Lobor camp were subjected to rapes by the commanding officers and guards,[12] which resulted in pregnancies in girls as young as 14 years old.[13] Besides systematic rapes, the inmates were subjected to torture, robbery and murder of "undisciplined" individuals.[14] At least 200 women and children died in Lobor camp.[15] There was no mass killing of inmates in Lobor, but 150 inmates died because of atyphoid epidemic.[16]
Around 2,000 Jewish women and children were inmates of this concentration camp during its existence.[17] In the period between 13 and 28 August 1942 all children and women that survived were transported toAuschwitz concentration camp where they all were killed.[18][19][20]
In 2002 theHome for Mentally ill Adults Lobor-Grad was established at the location which housed the camp. According to its website, during the World War II its building was the almshouse ofThe Society for the Suppression of begging and supporting sick.[21]
^(Bulajić 1988, p. 257): "Dječji koncentracioni logori bili su u Loboru, Jablancu kod Jasenovca, u Mlaki kod Jasenovca, na ciglani Bročica kod Jasenovca, u Uštici, u Staroj Gradiški, u Sisku, u Jastrebarskom i u Gornjoj Rijeci u varaždinskom kotaru. "
^(Bulajić 1988, p. 257): "Prema izjavama same djece nekim drugim podacima koje sam uspio prikupiti, izračunao sam da je u to vrijeme u 1942 godini bilo u tim logorima najmanje 24000 djece, a od tog broja mi smo dobili iz logora jedva polovinu."
^(Boban 1976, p. 884): ".. kada stiže u Lobor prvi transport od 1300 osoba iz logora Krušćica"
^(Miletić 1986, p. 713): " Zatim da se u Lobor-gradu nalazilo 1.500 žena i dece,"
^(Gerolymatos 2003, p. 242): "In the Loborgrad camp, 1,500 Jewish women and girls were subjected to repeated rapes by the commandant and his guards."
^(Centre 1998, p. 41): "in addition to robbery, torture and rape, individual killings of 'undisciplined' inmates were carried out" there."
^(Goldstein & Lengel-Krizman 1997, p. 97): "9 August 1941 - a camp was established in Loborgrad for about 1,700 women and children; over 200 people died in the camp,"
