camp. In some cases, the children were released to their parents or close relatives, while many others were placed in foster care. Either because of the NDH policy of forced conversion or out of expedience, many were baptized into the Roman Catholic faith. Dissolution On 8 January 1943, Sisak II was shut down, and the remaining child prisoners were sent to Zagreb. Over the course of its existence, a total of 6,693 Serb, Jewish, and Roma children passed through Sisak II, according to Bartrop and Grimm. White places the number of child inmates at 7,000. According to Bartrop and Grimm, between 1,160 and 1,500 children perished at the camp, largely as a result of typhus. White estimates that between 1,200 and 1,600 children died from starvation, thirst, typhus and neglect. Legacy The historian Jelena Subotić has referred to Sisak as a "uniquely monstrous" camp. The journalist Nikola Vukobratovic describes the treatment of children in Sisak II as "one of the greatest tragedies" in the town's history. On 8 September 1946, Najžer was convicted for his involvement in the atrocities that took place at Sisak II and sentenced to death by firing squad. In October 2014, the Holocaust survivor Branko Lustig, who produced the 1993 film Schindler's List, attended a ceremony commemorating the victims of the Sisak camp. "We had a similar treatment [in Auschwitz] as children in ... Sisak," Lustig remarked. "They had doctor Najžer, we had the infamous doctor Mengele." After the war, parents who had survived being subjected to forced labour in the Reich returned to Yugoslavia and began searching for their children. Records kept by Budisavljević containing information about each child detained at Sisak were confiscated by the Department for People's Protection (; OZNA) and kept from public view, preventing many families from reuniting. According to the historian Nataša Mataušić, most of the children adopted from camps such as Sisak never became aware of their biological families or the circumstances of their adoption. Others, such as camp survivor Božo Judaš, chose to continue identifying as Croats even after discovering their origins. "Some have asked me how come I identify as a Croat, although my biological parents were almost certainly Serbs," Judaš remarked. "It's quite simple: without my adoptive Croat father, I wouldn't be alive." Also among the children who passed through Sisak was Milja Toroman. She survived and later became the subject of an iconic war photograph