Phenomenon Zafranovic (2)

Children of Kozara – a historian's view

October 14, 2026, 23:15 p.m Rory Yeomans

The memoirs of children adopted by Ustasha-friendly and strongly Catholic families show that this process was no different from what happened in Spain after the Civil War, under the regime of Francisco Franco, when the children of murdered or imprisoned republicans were placed in Francoist families to be raised as "good" Spanish fascists.

Among the documents prepared for the indictment against Ante Pavelić and the former NDH Interior Minister Andrije Artuković, which are kept in the Croatian State Archives on Marulić Square in Zagreb, there are a number of photographs of recently deceased children and babies, in various stages of starvation and illness. The photos were secretly taken by employees of the Croatian Red Cross, in the morgue [...]

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Phenomenon Zafranović

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Chronicle of evil, cruelty and madness

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