Gallery of Horror

        WARNING: If you have a sensitive stomach, better do not look at following pictures.

        • The Ustasha infamous massacre of the Serbs in the Serbian Ortodox church in Glina took place on 21 August 1941. There was only one survivor, Ljubo Jadnak.

        • The Serbs in the church before their massacre in Glina, August 21, 1941.

        • In Gradina, the largest execution site in Jasenovac, wich has not yet been examined, the river Sava is still uncovering the bones of the victims (Yugoslav Cinemathek Nr. 5047.)

        • Mass grave containing the bones of prisoners murdered in Gradina (Yugoslav Cinemathek Nr. 5047.)

        • Bodies washed up ashore (Yugoslav Cinemathek Nr. 5047.)

        • The Ustashi took pictures following their "heroic deeds," bayonetting the "seeds of the beasts." One of the crazed priests,Fr. Ivan Raguz, had no inhibitions, repeatedly urged the killing of all Serbs, including children so that "not even the seeds of the beasts are left."

        • A picture of a mutiliated woman.

        • Ustashi carrying the head of a Sebrian Ortodox priest.

        • An Ustasha, with a sadistic smile on his face, chopping off a man's head with an axe.

        • A Serbian whose head was cut off by the Ustashi.

        • A man being prepared by the Ustashi to have his head cut off

        • A victim of a special group of Ustashi called "skull crushers." They used to photograph their deeds to show their chief, the Minister of the interior, Andrija Artukovich, in a hope of receiving a decoration from him.

        • The mother with her six children, was considered a great enemy of the State of Croatia, was sent to the concentration camp by Andrija Artukovich

        • More Serbian women and children, labeled as enemies of the State of Croatia, being taken to concentration camps, where they died of starvation, or were killed.

        • Ustashi escorting Serbian girls and women to concentration camps.

        • Serbian children saved from an Ustashi camp

        • In the camps of Jasenovac and Stara Gradishka, about 8000 children died (Hrvatski slikopisni tjednik Nr 40; Yugoslav Cinemathek Nr. 11045)

        • 1941: Children in the Stara Gradishka concentration camp, dying of slow starvation. The government of the satellite state of Croatia (Interior minister Andrija Artukovich) orderd caustic soda to be added to their food in order to eliminate them.

        • This peasant had to dig his own grave.

        • The well-known industrialist and philanthropist Serb Milosh Teslich, 26 years old, from Sisak, was cruelly tortured and murdered by the Ustashi. His legs were broken, ears and lips cut off, eyes gouged, chest stabbed and finaly the heart was extracted through a big hole made in his chest. As the witnesses were testifying, the Ustashi were telling later the heart of the tortured Milosh was still beating on the palm of an Ustasha.

        • A saw, a knife, and a gun that will be used on this Serb farmer.

        • The eyes of this peasant woman were poked out for the Ante Pavelich eyeball collection

        • Two aerial photographs of the Jasenovac camp during the last days of World War II (Yugoslav Cinemathek Nr. 3080/ Nr. 3083.).

        • This picture shows what Pavelich, Artukovich (until 1985 living in Los Angeles) and other Ustashi left behind when they fled the county (Yugoslavia). The bodies are lined up for identification (Gudovac, near Bjelovar)

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