Red Cross Nazi Concentration Camp

Red Cross Nazi Concentration Camp in Nis, Serbia

The Crveni Krst concentration camp (lit. Red Cross concentration camp), located in Crveni Krst, Niš, was operated by the German Gestapo and used to hold captured Serbs, Jews and Romanis during the Second World War. Established in mid-1941, it was used to detain as many as 35,000 people during the war and was liberated by the Yugoslav Partisans in 1944. More than 10,000 people are thought to have been killed at the camp. After the war, a memorial to the victims of the camp was erected on Mount Bubanj, where many inmates were shot. A memorial museum was opened on the former campgrounds in 1967 and in 1979 the campgrounds were declared a Cultural Monument of Exceptional Importance and came under the protection of the Socialist Republic of Serbia.
The camp/museum was all but deserted when we visited in April 2017. Admittedly it was the Easter weekend and the city, in general, was pretty quiet but I suspect that it is often the case. The Crveni Krst is not as well documented/publicised as other former Nazi concentration camps across Europe, such as Auschwitz-Birkenau or Dachau, and simply doesn’t receive as many visitors.
Surrounded by an imposing high perimeter wall, the camp makes an impression the minute you enter the wooden gate on the western side of the complex. The ticket counter is situated in what must have been the commandant’s office. Above the door looms an engraved swastika and SS symbol as well as the German word Wache, which simply translates as Watch (as in sentry/lookout). There are two auxiliary buildings to the right of the ex-commandant’s office and scattered throughout the seven-hectare plot are a number of guard/watchtowers as well as some of the original barbwire fencing. There is also a discreet memorial along the eastern boundary of the camp but the most dominating structure within the camp’s confines is the large, sinister-looking grey building which was used to house the prisoners. It is now a museum and inside are exhibits and information relating to the camp and some of its inmates.
Some of the information on display relates to one of the more significant dates in the camp’s infamous history, 12th February, 1942. After nightfall on this date, a mass breakout of 147 inmates resulted in 105 escaped prisoners and 11 dead German guards. Of the 105 prisoners that did break free, only 23 didn’t perish soon after taking flight but reprisals by the occupying Nazis were swift and harsh and at least 1,100 inmates (one hundred for every German guard that was killed) were executed as punishment for what happened. It was the largest breakout of prisoners from a concentration camp throughout the course of the Second World War.

Most of the information inside the museum is in English as well as Serbian.
As an aside, the camp got its rather deceptive name from the fact that the main building was originally a military barracks for a Red Cross (as in the humanitarian movement) facility that had been established nearby. It is also known as the 12th February Memorial Museum after the major breakout described above.
It’s been at least fifteen years since I visited Auschwitz-Birkenau, in fact the Crveni Krst Concentration Camp is only the second museum of its kind that I have ever been to. I recall being moved by what I saw in Poland, the exhibits were superbly presented and I had an excellent one-on-one guide. But I also remember the crowds and the lack of sensitivity from some of the visitors. From some accounts that I read, the situation has not improved with time and, with the increase in popularity of nearby Krakow and the invention of the selfie-stick, arguably got worse. In Nis we were almost alone and were not distracted by any unruly behaviour. The displays inside the museum were not as informative or hard-hitting as those at Auschwitz-Birkenau but nonetheless, they were good enough to get the message across and I left the camp in a very sombre mood.
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Red Cross (Crveni Krst) german concentration camp WW2, Nis, Yugoslavia

The Crveni Krst concentration camp (lit. Red Cross concentration camp), located in Crveni Krst, Niš, was operated by the German Gestapo and used to hold captured Serbs, Jews and Romanis during the Second World War. Established in mid-1941, it was used to detain as many as 35,000 people during the war and was liberated by the Yugoslav Partisans in 1944. More than 10,000 people are thought to have been killed at the camp. After the war, a memorial to the victims of the camp was erected on Mount Bubanj, where many inmates were shot. A memorial museum was opened on the former campgrounds in 1967 and in 1979 the campgrounds were declared a Cultural Monument of Exceptional Importance and came under the protection of the Socialist Republic of Serbia.
On 6 April 1941, Axis forces invaded the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. The Royal Yugoslav Army was quickly defeated and Belgrade was captured by 12 April.[1] The country was then occupied and dismembered, with the Wehrmacht establishing the Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia[2] under a government of military occupation. The territory included most of Serbia proper, with the addition of the northern part of Kosovo (centred on Kosovska Mitrovica), and the Banat.[3] It was the only area of partitioned Yugoslavia in which the German occupants established a military government. This was done to exploit the key rail and riverine transport routes that passed through it, and due to its valuable resources, particularly non-ferrous metals.[4] The Military Commander in Serbia appointed Serbian puppet governments to carry on administrative chores under German direction and supervision.[5] On 29 August 1941, the Germans appointed the Government of National Salvation (Serbian: Vlada Nacionalnog Spasa, Влада Националног Спаса) under General Milan Nedić, to replace the short-lived Commissioner Administration.[6] A pre-war politician who was known to have pro-Axis leanings, Nedić was selected because the Germans believed his fierce anti-Communism and military experience could be used to quell an armed uprising in the Serbian region of Šumadija.[7] Unable to bring reinforcements due to the need to send soldiers to the Eastern Front, the Germans responded to the revolt by declaring that one-hundred Serbs would be executed for every German soldier killed and that fifty would be executed for every German soldier wounded. By October 1941, this policy had resulted in the deaths of 25,000 Serbs.[8] The Germans also targeted Jews, who were subjected to forced labour, punitive taxing, and restrictive decrees.[9] Jews were also registered with German authorities and forced to wear identifying armbands while Jewish property was confiscated.[10] They, and to a lesser degree Romanis, were targeted on racial grounds, although most were not killed outright. Following the start of the anti-German uprising, German propaganda began associating Jews with Communism and anti-German ideology. Executions and arrests of Serbian Jews followed.[9]

When the Germans occupied southeastern Serbian city of Niš in April 1941, they prohibited Romanis from leaving their homes without an identifying yellow armband bearing the word Zigeuner (Gypsy). German soldiers then went through the Romani quarter and forcibly shaved the heads of all Romanis in Niš under the pretext that they had lice.The Crveni Krst (Red Cross) concentration camp was established by the German Gestapo in Niš in mid-1941.[12] It was named after a Red Cross facility located near the campgrounds. Romani men, women and children were imprisoned at Crveni Krst shortly after its creation.[15] In October 1941, 200–300 local and foreign Jews living in Niš were brought to the camp. More arrived later from towns in the Serbian interior.[12] Laws passed by the Germans that September ensured that they would be detained separately from other inmates.[14] The Germans began executing adult male inmates in early November.[12] In January, a group of Serbian Partisans attacked the camp, freeing a small number of Jewish prisoners.[16] The first mass executions occurred on Mount Bubanj in February 1942. That month, a group of inmates made an organized attempt to escape the camp. Although fifteen prisoners managed to escape, forty-two failed to do so and were killed. A second mass execution involved the shooting of large numbers of Serb and remaining Jewish inmates whose corpses were dumped into mass graves that the Germans had forced Romani prisoners to dig.That spring, the women and children detained at Crveni Krst were transferred to the Sajmište concentration camp on the outskirts of Belgrade, where they were murdered using gas vans.The camp remained in operation over the following two years before being liberated by the Partisans in 1944. Of the more than 35,000 inmates held at the camp during the war, an estimated 10,000 were killed.

Crveni Krst Concentration Camp | Nazi Camp in Niš, Serbia

The Crveni Krst (Red Cross) concentration camp, located in Niš, was operated by the German Gestapo and used to hold captured Serbs, Jews and Romanis during the WWII.

Concentration Camp 12 February in Red Cross Nis, Logor u Nisu

The Crveni Krst concentration camp (lit. Red Cross concentration camp), located in Crveni Krst, Niš, was operated by the German Gestapo and used to hold captured Serbs, Jews and Romanis during the Second World War. Established in mid-1941, it was used to detain as many as 35,000 people during the war and was liberated by the Yugoslav Partisans in 1944. More than 10,000 people are thought to have been killed at the camp. After the war, a memorial to the victims of the camp was erected on Mount Bubanj, where many inmates were shot. A memorial museum was opened on the former campgrounds in 1967 and in 1979 the campgrounds were declared a Cultural Monument of Exceptional Importance and came under the protection of the Socialist Republic of Serbia.
מחנה הריכוז צְרְוֶונִי קְרְסְט (בסרבו-קרואטית: koncentracioni logor Crveni Krst, בסרבית קירילית: концентрациони логор Црвени Крст), היה מחנה ריכוז אשר הוקם על ידי הגסטפו סמוך לעיר ניש ביוגוסלביה, פעל בתקופת השואה מ-1941 עד 1944, ובו נכלאו ונרצחו יהודים, סרבים ובני רומה.
Логор Црвени крст у Нишу, концентрациони логор Црвени Крст (нем. Anhalter Lager des Nisch или Lager Nich), данас Меморијални комплекс „12. фебруар”, био је један од концентрационих логора које су широм Србије основале Немачке окупационе снаге 1941. године, прво као привремени лпогор за смештај ратних заробљеника југословенске краљевске војске. Од априла до 22. јуна 1941. године, у време немачко-совјетског рата, постаје логор политичких кривица и ратних заробљеника. са наменом: смештај ратних заробљеника, Јевреја и конфинирање националиста, међу које су спадали: предратни припадници демократских партија, као носиоци антинемачке политике, чланови четничких удружења, свештеници, као народне вође још из доба Топличког устанка 1917, активни краљевски официри, који су организовали прве непредате војне одреде, следбеници 27. марта, англофили, припадници масонске ложе, ротари клубова и други. Септембар 1941. пошто у њему више није било ратних заробљеника (заштићених Жееневском и Хашкој конвенцијом о поступању са заробљеницима) логор званично постаје концентрациони логор.[a]

Логор, који је данас музеј налази се у зградама српске војске које су до окупације служиле као војни магацин, у индустријској зони града Ниша. Њиме су управљали Немци током Другог светског рата. Логор је био смештен у непосредној близини железничке станице „Црвени крст“ у Нишу (по којој је и добио најчешће коришћен назив, Логор Црверни крст),

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Concentration Camp: Red Cross February 12th Niš, Serbia

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this was one of the most depressing and eerie places I have ever encountered.. it was very interesting and the guide spoke perfect English. He walked me through all three floors of the camp..One room was very sad. It was dedicated to the women and kids that were killed and one room was full of pictures that the local students drew about life in a concentration camp... over 12,000 people were killed here... it is a must see..

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CREEPIEST PLACES | Niš vlog #2

We went to diffrent places such as archaeological museums, a place full of 'skulls', and a concentration camp. Yup, there's a camp in Niš called Crveni Krst/Red Cross, where Nazis have operated during WW2. It is now a museum. This was the creepiest day of my life.

Crveni Krst/Red Cross:

Folke Bernadotte and Red Cross - History channel

Folke Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (Swedish: Greve af Wisborg; 2 January 1895 – 17 September 1948) was a Swedish diplomat and nobleman. During World War II he negotiated the release of about 31,000 prisoners from German concentration camps including 450 Danish Jews from the Theresienstadt camp. They were released on 14 April 1945. In 1945, he received a German surrender offer from Heinrich Himmler, though the offer was ultimately rejected.
After the war, Bernadotte was unanimously chosen to be the United Nations Security Council mediator in the Arab–Israeli conflict of 1947–1948. He was assassinated in Jerusalem in 1948 by the militant Zionist group Lehi while pursuing his official duties. The decision to assassinate him had been taken by Natan Yellin-Mor, Yisrael Eldad, and Yitzhak Shamir, who later became Prime Minister of Israel.
While vice-president of the Swedish Red Cross in 1945, Bernadotte attempted to negotiate an armistice between Germany and the Allies. He also led several rescue missions in Germany for the Red Cross. During the autumns of 1943 and 1944, he organized prisoner exchanges which brought home 11,000 prisoners from Germany via Sweden.
In the spring of 1945, Bernadotte was in Germany when he met Heinrich Himmler, who was briefly appointed commander of an entire German army following the assassination attempt on Hitler the year before. Bernadotte had originally been assigned to retrieve Norwegian and Danish POWs in Germany. He returned on 1 May 1945, the day after Hitler's death. Following an interview, the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet wrote that Bernadotte succeeded in rescuing 15,000 people from German concentration camps, including about 8000 Danes and Norwegians and 7000 women of French, Polish, Czech, British, American, Argentinian, and Chinese nationalities. The missions took around two months, and exposed the Swedish Red Cross staff to significant danger, both due to political difficulties and by taking them through areas under Allied bombing.
The mission became known for its buses, painted entirely white except for the Red Cross emblem on the side, so that they would not be mistaken for military targets. In total it included 308 personnel (about 20 medics and the rest volunteer soldiers), 36 hospital buses, 19 trucks, seven passenger cars, seven motorcycles, a tow truck, a field kitchen, and full supplies for the entire trip, including food and gasoline, none of which was permitted to be obtained in Germany. A count of 21,000 people rescued included 8,000 Danes and Norwegians, 5,911 Poles, 2,629 French, 1,615 Jews, and 1,124 Germans.
Bernadotte was assassinated on Friday 17 September 1948 by members of the armed Jewish Zionist group Lehi (commonly known as the Stern Gang or Stern Group).

Video from performance ONE DAY KLARISA, Camp Red Cross in Niš.

Performance is dedicated to family members who perished in horror of The Holocaust in Belgrade between 1941 and 1943.
Klarisa Beraha, born in Belgrade 1906. Captured by Gestapo and sent to Camp Red Cross in NIš. Shot at Bubanj, near NIš in 1943.
Music: Por Que Liorax Blanca Nina (Sephardic jewish music from Sarajevo-Ladino), Jordi Savall and Montserrat Figueras and Steven Isserlis plays Ravels KADDISH.

BEKSTVO

Događaji i likovi u filmu Bekstvo inspirisani su istorijskim činjenicama i stvarnim ličnostima. Film na jedan nesvakidašnji način pokušava da prikaže situaciju pre, tokom i nakon bekstva iz niškog logora na Crvenom krstu početkom 1942. godine.


źiri festivala RESTFEST2018. u sastavu :
1.Vladislav Lasic
2. Milan D. Spicek
3. Stojan Srdic
filmu BEKSTVO je dodelio sledeće nagrade:
1. Banova skoljka za reziju
2. Banova skoljka za autorku muziku
3. Nagrada Djordje Nikolic za kameru

Režija: Miodrag Miša Ignjatović
Scenario: Stefan Marković
Izvršni producent: Nikola Stojanović
Muzika: Vladimir Jelenković
Snimatelji: Petar Stanković, Miodrag Miša Ignjatović, Marko Pekić
Gimbal operator: Petar Stanković
Snimatelj zvuka: Marko Pekić
Montaža: Miodrag Miša Ignjatović
Stručni konsultant: Nebojša Ozimić, Sacha Miljković

ULOGE:

Jaško: Dušan Ščepihin
Logoraš: Petar Ščepihin
Robert Hamer: Davorin Dinić
Velizar Pijade: Velibor Petković
Milica Maša Šuvaković: Katarina Pešić
Ljilja: Barbara Savić


Realizaciju filma pomogao Grad Niš, Sekretarijat za kulturu i informisanje

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Niš, decembar 2017.

Invasion - Possibly Yugoslavia (1941)

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Various shots of the guerilla type armed troops moving through a village. Various shots of the troops fighting - they throw hand grenade into a building and shoot from cover around the house.



Several shots of a group of men talking in front of a building. More shots of the men walking through village, taking positions and fighting. Man unfolds a flag with cross on in front of camera. Road patrol stops people - presumably to check their papers.



Note: Although the title suggests this is happening n Yugoslavia, this is highly unlikely. No Yugoslavian insignia, flag is not Yugoslavian nor the uniforms, and there are very tall palm trees in background at several scenes.
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