were often robbed. Hunger became rampant; daily rations were reduced to two or three potatoes per person. Many detainees were subjected to rape and torture. Although no systematic killings took place, detainees were routinely abused and humiliated, and multiple individual killings occurred as well. On one occasion, the Ustaše amused themselves by tossing loaves of bread to the starving children. When the children set upon the bread, the Ustaše released their hungry dogs upon them. According to one eyewitness, after a dog tore a piece of flesh from one of the children, one of the Ustaše dragged both the child and the dog into a storehouse and locked the door. As the child screamed, the Ustaše danced to the accordion. Closure By May, as many as 800 detainees had succumbed to typhoid fever, which killed between five and six detainees daily. An additional 700 detainees contracted other diseases. By this point, the camp had become a burden to the Ustaše. On 18 May 1942, the Ministry of Health asked the Directorate for Public Order and Security (; RAVSIGUR) to dissolve the camp within one month. This message was personally relayed to RAVSIGUR by the Minister of Health, Ivo Petrić, who proposed the "relocation" or "closing down" of the camp together with the provision of "improved and increased food for the prisoners". Despite Petrić's suggestions, RAVSIGUR decided it would be most expedient to kill all the detainees. Zagreb's Jewish community subsequently offered to help restock the camp, but the authorities declined their offer because they had already decided to liquidate it. Between 15 June and 7 July, 2,400–3,200 detainees were transported from Đakovo to Jasenovac. The operation was overseen by Lieutenant () Joso Matković. For days, they were left in locked railway carriages on the train tracks outside the camp, and many consequently died of heat, thirst and hunger. Those that survived this ordeal were taken off the railway carriages, ferried across the Sava River and killed. Their bodies were then pushed into the Sava by Romani slave labourers, who were later killed themselves. Unaware of their fate, between 7 July and 14 July, the Jewish community in Zagreb sent about 120 food parcels to Jasenovac for the former Đakovo detainees. By September 1942, members of Zagreb's Jewish community began to suspect that the detainees had been killed, although when asked, Ustaše officials would only reply that the detainees had been