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unusual facts about Jasenovac, Sisak-Moslavina County


Jasenovac

Jasenovac, Sisak-Moslavina County, town and municipality in Croatia, the location of the Jasenovac concentration camp


Ante Prkačin

Prkačin was born in Slavonski Brod, where he also studied at the Faculty of Economics, in addition to the Faculty of Petrochemistry in Sisak.

Antun Miletić

He has also participated in numerous other projects as collaborator, editor, reviewer and member of editorial boards, Presently, he is Chairman of the Advisory Board Jasenovac, Research Institute, Brooklyn, New York.

Bobby Grubic

Bobby Bosko Grubic (a.k.a. Bobby G) (born in Sisak, Croatia January 8, 1972) is a Croatian American songwriter/composer, singer, and award winning music and independent director and producer.

Desiderius Hampel

Desiderius Hampel was born 20 January 1895 in the town of Sisak, Austria-Hungary (modern-day Croatia).

Dražen Bošnjaković

On beginning his career he worked in the Council of Ivanić Grad, and from 1993 until 1997 he was a secretary in Sisak-Moslavina County.

Goran Dević

Born in Sisak Dević was formally educated at the University of Zagreb's Faculty of Law, the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (archeology department) and the Academy of Dramatic Art (film directing department).

Jasenovac

Jasenovac, Bosanski Petrovac, village in the Una-Sana Canton in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Jasenovac, Osijek-Baranja County, village in the Kneževi Vinogradi municipality in Croatia

Lisa Stublić

Her father was born in Sisak, Croatia, but emigrated to Germany at age 18, then moved to California and finally to Connecticut.

Matija Mažuranić

By travelling in 1839 to Bosnia (from Karlovac, Sisak and Kostajnica, over Belgrade, on foot and horse, to Sarajevo, Travnik, over Romanija up to Zvornik) - Mažuranić has in a vernacular way, with no external stimulus or literary influences, as a connoisseur of vernacular literary genius, managed to create a piece which can be read both as an adventure and as a realistic account of seen and experienced.

Operation Whirlwind

The secrecy was reflected in the apparent last-minute rerouting of the 102nd Infantry Brigade to the offensive, although the Zagreb Operational Zone deployed it to Sunja, to the east of Sisak.

Sisak-Moslavina County

Today, Sisak features the largest Croatian metallurgic factory (supported by the University of Zagreb's Faculty of Metallurgy also in the city) and the largest oil refinery.

Ustaše Militia

The Defence Brigades engaged in operations against both the Chetniks and Partisans, engaged in mass terror against the Serbian, Jewish and Romani segments of the NDH population, and administered the Ustaša concentration camps, including Jasenovac.


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