transported to Jasenovac. Legacy During the course of its existence, the Đakovo camp housed as many as 3,800 civilians. In August 1942, around 1,200 Jews were deported from Osijek, leaving all but 40 to 50 of the Jewish foster children that had been taken from the Đakovo camp left in the town. Many of these children subsequently escaped to Split, in the Italian occupation zone. Around 25,000 Jews were killed in the NDH during the Holocaust, according to Yad Vashem. In 1945, the Yugoslav authorities undertook exhumations on the Đakovo camp's former grounds. The following year, former Jasenovac concentration camp administrator Miroslav Filipović testified about the killing of the Đakovo detainees at Jasenovac in July 1942. In September 1952, the Union of Jewish Communities of Yugoslavia unveiled five monuments to the victims of the Holocaust in Belgrade, Zagreb, Sarajevo, Novi Sad and Đakovo. Following Croatia's independence from Yugoslavia, the former campsite was turned into a gas station. A commemorative ceremony is held at the site every year on the first Sunday in June. The commemoration also encompasses the nearby cemetery in which the camp detainees who died were buried. The cemetery is unique in that it is the only burial site in Europe where victims of the Holocaust were interred under their first and last names and not merely their inmate number. There are 569 camp victims buried in the cemetery. On this basis, the historians Jens Hoppe and Alexander Korb have concluded that the camp's mortality rate amounted to nearly 19 percent. In June 2013, a sculpture titled Peace in Heaven, by Croatian-born Israeli sculptor Dina Merhav, was unveiled in Đakovo to commemorate those who were interned at the camp. Citations References 1941 in Croatia 1942 in Croatia Concentration camps of the Independent State of Croatia History of the Serbs of Croatia Jewish Croatian history The Holocaust in Yugoslavia World War II internment camps