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Genocidno stradanje Roma na širem zagrebačkom području za vrijeme Drugog svjetskog rata, 1941.–1945

Romi su na zagrebačkom području živjeli od druge polovine XIV. st. i pritom su bili integrirani dio tamošnjeg društva. Povijest Roma na ovom području bila je obilježena politikom anticiganizma što je nerijetko podrazumijevalo politiku represivne asimilacije i prisilne sedentarizacije. Takva represivna politika posebno je bila vidljiva za vrijeme Drugoga svjetskog rata kada su ustaške vlasti progonile romsko stanovništva. Ustaška genocidna politika prema Romima na zagrebačkom području sastojala se od njihove deportacije u jasenovački koncentracijski logor, gdje je većina njih bila ubijena.

Romi, Drugi svjetski rat, Nezavisna Država Hrvatska, Zagreb, genocid

The Roma settled in the Zagreb area in the second half of the 14th century and were integrated into Zagreb’s late medieval society. The 16th century saw a negative change in the attitude and perception of the Roma, which was marked by the beginning of the authorities’ repressive assimilationist and anti-Gypsy policy of persecution of Roma, which culminated during World War II. The pro-fascist Ustasha authorities in the newly established Independent State of Croatia (ISC) persecuted the Roma, considering them as “parasites” and a threat to the racially pure Croatian society. The first step in resolving the “Gypsy question” in the ISC was the enactment of racial laws that left Roma without the protection of society and civil rights. This was followed by a census of Roma conducted in the summer of 1941; the obtained data were used by the Ustasha authorities to implement the decision of 19 May 1942 to deport all Roma to the Jasenovac concentration camp. A mass deportation of Roma to the Jasenovac camp followed, where most Roma from the Zagreb area were killed. The paper at hand demonstrates by way of example of Roma from the Stup