Rad Prihvatilišta za djecu izbjeglica u Sisku i djelovanje učitelja Ante Dumbovića (dokumenti)
”Shelter for Refugee Children in Sisak” Paper and the Work of Teacher Ante Dumbović (Documents)

Summary/Abstract: On August 3, 1942, the Ministry of Social Welfare of the Independent State of Croatia established a „Shelter for Refugee Children” in Sisak. During that same month, 2,272 children were sent there from the Ustasha concentration camps in Mlaka, Jablanac, and Košutarica, which were established after the great Kozara offensive. The children were placed in several city locations. At the same time, children from the concentration camp in Sisak whose parents were sent to forced labor in the countries of the Third Reich were placed in the „Shelter”. Due to the lack of adequate care, 1,152 children died there in a very short time. The „Shelter” stopped working on January 8, 1943, when the last group of ten children was transferred to Zagreb. Based on original archival materials from the Croatian State Archives in Zagreb and the Museum of Genocide Victims in Belgrade, and with the help of available professional and scientific literature, the work of this „Shelter” (or as one would say – „a children’s camp”) has been reconstructed. The head of the „Shelter”, doctor Antun Najžar was responsible for this. Special attention was paid to the teacher Ante Dumbović, who was the commissioner of the Ministry of the Association for the Colonization of Children in Sisak. The paper also brings new biographical information about the doctors who took care of the children.

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