Tenja concentration camp

Tenja concentration camp
Concentration camp
Memorial between Tenja and Osijek, which was the location of the Tenja concentration camp for Jews in 1942
Tenja concentration camp is located in Croatia
Tenja concentration camp
Location of Tenja concentration camp within Croatia
Coordinates45°31′41″N 18°43′18″E / 45.52807°N 18.72160°E / 45.52807; 18.72160
LocationTenja, Independent State of Croatia (modern-day Croatia)
Built byJews from Osijek and its surroundings
Operated byUstaše, Independent State of Croatia[1]
Original useEnvelope factory Mursa Mill
OperationalMarch 1942 — August 1942[2]
InmatesJews
Number of inmates3,000
Monument before reconstruction.

The Tenja concentration camp (Croatian: Koncentracijski logor Tenja) was one of 26 concentration camps established in the Independent State of Croatia during World War II.[3] It was located close to village of Tenja near Osijek and operated by Ustaše.

  1. ^ Kenrick 2004, p. 55: "... the Ustashe-run concentration camps: Jasenovac, Stara Gradiska, Strug and Tenje."
  2. ^ Gutman 1995, p. 326.
  3. ^ Jacobs 2009, p. 158: "A total of twenty-six concentration camps were established on the territory of NDH, such as Drnje, Kruš cica, Surovo, Bugojno, Bijeljina, Lepoglava, Rogatica, Vlasenica, Tuzla, Tenje, and Pag, but only Jadovno, Jasenovac, and Stara Gradiška were large extermination camps."