Gornja Rijeka concentration camp

A number of women, some of them with children, were interned there between November 1941 and the spring of 1942; the camp's population was estimated as between 200 and 400 at any given time.

[1][2] In February 1942, Diana Budisavljević's group acted through the government and the Red Cross to save 11 children from there, and in March a group of 147 Serbian women and children were moved from Gornja Rijeka to Loborgrad concentration camp and then on to Zagreb and Zemun, and in turn to camps in Germany and Serbia.

[3] In April, the remaining Serbian women were moved to Loborgrad, and then released.

[4] On 24 June 1942, around 100 boys from one of the Jasenovac concentration camp sites were transferred to the site, run by Ustaša Youth members, and then on 4 July another 200 boys and girls arrived from the Stara Gradiška concentration camp.

[3] From June 1942, the camp housed approximately 400 orphans left behind from the Kozara Offensive.