Međeđa (Kozarska Dubica)
Notable people
- Philip Zepter, businessman
- Zoran Lončar, politician
- Savo Lončar, politician
History
World War II
Mass grave of Ustaše victims from Jasenovac concentration camp, mostly children, was located on the estate of Lončar family in Međeđa. After the decision of SFR Yugoslavian government from 1956, the mass grave was backfilled to make space for Sava river walls.
In the villages: Drakulić, Demirovac and Međeđa, Ustaše enjoined the young Serbian girls to "pull their skirts up, and pricked them between the legs".
From the Prijedor canton village of Međeđa, and many other neighbour villages, Ustaše soldiers required inhabitants to prepare themselves for the departure in 10 minutes. When the 8.000 people came, they expelled them from their villages to the Hrvatska Dubica and put them on some field near the railway station, which had a boundary of barbed wire. Some of them were instantly killed (by fusillade), the other one were sent to concentration camps, and people who were lucky to stay alive were, after long time, sent to Serbia.
References
- ^ Official results from the book: Ethnic composition of Bosnia-Herzegovina population, by municipalities and settlements, 1991. census, Zavod za statistiku Bosne i Hercegovine - Bilten no.234, Sarajevo 1991.
- ^ "4. Међународна конференција о Јасеновцу (мај 2007) (20. година од стварања Републике Српске)" (in Serbian). Радио-телевизија Републике Српске. 22 April 2012. Archived from the original on 6 October 2012. Retrieved 24 April 2012.
- ^ Stranjaković 1991, pp. 221, 222
- ^ Јованка Марчетић, домаћица из Приједора у Београду, 1. октобра 1942. године (К)
- ^ Stranjaković, Dragoslav (1991), Највећи злочини садашњице : (патње и страдање српског народа у Независној Држави Хрватској од 1941-1945) [The biggest crimes of the present: (the suffering of the Serbian people in the Independent State of Croatia from 1941-1945)] (in Serbian), Горњи Милановац Дечје новине, p. 119
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