Antun Najžer, orNadžer in some sources,[1] was aCroatian physician and member of thefascistUstaše movement who served as the commander of theSisak children's concentration camp in theIndependent State of Croatia duringWorld War II.[2] He was dubbed the "CroatianMengele" 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]
"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.
