MJESTA POGIBIJE I POKAPANJA VOJNIKA I CIVILA TIJEKOM DRUGOGA SVJETSKOG RATA I PORAĆA NA PODRUČJU STARIH OPĆINA VRATNIKA, KRASNA I SVETOG JURJA (II. DIO)
THE PLACES OF PERISH AND BURIAL OF SOLDIERS AND CIVILIANS DURING AND AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR (1941 TO 1946) ON THE TERRITORY OF OLD COMMUNITIES VRATNIK, KRASNO AND ST. JURAJ. (SECOND PART)
Author(s): Ante GlavičićSubject(s): Customs / Folklore, Military history, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure , WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Fascism, Nazism and WW II
Published by: Senjsko muzejsko društvo i Gradski muzej Senj
Keywords: the second world war and after; the places of perish and burial; soldiers and civilians; old communities Vratnik; Krasno and St. Juraj;
Summary/Abstract: The author here deals with military and political circumstances on the territory of Senj during WWII and some time after. Based on poor archival materials and literature and for the part on memory of the participants of those war events, the author speaks about sixty five places where mainly the soldiers of the Independent State of Croatia armed forces perished or killed and buried. So, according to the respective pieces of information, more than 112 Croatian soldiers, mainly from Lika, lost their lives on the territory of Vratnik, Krasno and mountainous part of St. Juraj. The total number according to different locations amounts to one hundred sixty eight. Among them were also the soldiers of partisan formations and civilians from territory. They were killed for the most part between 7-15 April 1945. Among them was a number of prisoners of war, but they were executed as well. These, however, are not the and definitive figures.
Journal: Senjski zbornik - prilozi za geografiju, etnologiju, gospodarstvo, povijest i kulturu
- Issue Year: 27/2000
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 241-280
- Page Count: 40
- Language: Croatian