Jazovka is known as a site of mass executions and burials associated with Partisan activities during and after World War II in what is present-day Croatia. Hundreds of wounded Croatian soldiers from Zagreb hospitals and civilians were dumped in a pit here in the Žumberak Mountains area of Croatia. Some were already dead, but others died of exposure and injuries. Since the site was rediscovered in 1990, when more 800 skeletons were found, an annual pilgrimage has been organized.