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A flag bearing a swastika is raised over the city hall in Sarajevo after German forces captured the city. Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, April 16, 1941.
Deportation of Jews from Skopje, Yugoslavia, March 1943.
The Jews of Bulgarian-occupied Thrace and Macedonia were deported in March 1943. On March 11, 1943, over 7,000 Macedonian Jews from Skopje, Bitola, and Stip were rounded up and assembled at the Tobacco Monopoly in Skopje, whose several buildings had been hastily converted into a transit camp. The Macedonian Jews were kept there between eleven and eighteen days, before being deported by train in three transports between March 22 and 29, to Treblinka.
Hungarian soldiers and gendarmes participate in the mass killing of Serbian Jews and Serbians. Novi Sad, Yugoslavia, January 23, 1942.
Hungarian gendarmes oversee a group of Jewish forced laborers. Senta, Yugoslavia, May 1941.
Inmates in the Sajmiste internment camp in Serbia. Zemun, Yugoslavia, wartime.
Djakovo camp, where Croatian Jews were imprisoned and killed, was located in this former flour mill. Yugoslavia, wartime.
Ustasa (Croatian fascist) camp guards order a Jewish man to remove his ring before being shot. Jasenovac concentration camp, Yugoslavia, between 1941 and 1945.
View of the Jasenovac concentration camp in Croatia. Jasenovac, Yugoslavia, 1941-1942.
The execution by hanging of Serbs and Jews in the Banat region. Yugoslavia, September 17, 1941.
A Jewish child wears the compulsory Star of David badge with the letter "Z" for Zidov, the Croatian word for Jew. Yugoslavia, ca. 1941.
A child wears the compulsory Jewish badge. The "Z" stands for the word "Jew" (Zidov) in Croatian. Yugoslavia, ca. 1941.
Jews at forced labor in a military camp in Sarajevo. Yugoslavia, after March 1941.
Jews forced to clear rubble from streets following the bombardment of Belgrade. Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1941.
Streetcar in Belgrade bearing the sign: "Forbidden to Jews." Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1941-1942
An order to Jews and Serbs from the Croatian nationalist Ustasa government to move out of certain city neighborhoods. Zagreb, Yugoslavia, 1941.
Jews from Macedonia who were rounded up and assembled in the Tobacco Monopoly transit camp before deportation to the Treblinka killing center. Skopje, Yugoslavia, March 1943.
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