Antun Najžer

Antun Najžer, or Nadžer in some sources,^[1] was a Croatian physician and member of the fascist Ustaše movement who served as the commander of the Sisak children's concentration camp in the Independent State of Croatia during World War II.^[2] He was dubbed the "Croatian Mengele" by survivors^[3] due to conducting medical experiments on his victims.^[4] For these crimes, in September 1946, he was sentenced to execution by a firing squad.^[5]

References

^ White, Joseph Robert (2018). "Sisak I and II". In Megargee, Geoffrey P.; White, Joseph R. (eds.). Camps and Ghettos under European Regimes Aligned with Nazi Germany. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945. Vol. III. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. p. 73. ISBN 978-0-25302-386-5.
^ Matejcic, Marinella (6 February 2015). "The Ustashi Legacy: Remembering the Children's Concentration Camp in Sisak". globalvoices.com. Global Voices. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
^ Milekic, Sven (6 October 2014). "WWII Children's Concentration Camp Remembered in Croatia". Balkan Insight. Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN). Retrieved 3 March 2018. "We had a similar treatment [in Auschwitz] as children in the Ustasa-German camp in Sisak," said the Croatian-born Lustig. "They had doctor [Antun] Najzer [the camp's commander], we had the infamous doctor Mengele," he said.
^ "Logori u Sisku i Capragu" [Camps in Sisak and Caprag]. jadovno.com (in Serbian). 2 September 2014. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
^ Ognjenović, Gorana; Jozelić, Jasna, eds. (2016). Revolutionary Totalitarianism, Pragmatic Socialism, Transition: Volume One, Tito's Yugoslavia, Stories Untold. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 75. ISBN 9781137597434.

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[1] White, Joseph Robert (2018). "Sisak I and II". In Megargee, Geoffrey P.; White, Joseph R. (eds.). Camps and Ghettos under European Regimes Aligned with Nazi Germany. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945. Vol. III. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. p. 73. ISBN 978-0-25302-386-5.

[globalvoices-2] Matejcic, Marinella (6 February 2015). "The Ustashi Legacy: Remembering the Children's Concentration Camp in Sisak". globalvoices.com. Global Voices. Retrieved 3 March 2018.

[balkaninsight-3] Milekic, Sven (6 October 2014). "WWII Children's Concentration Camp Remembered in Croatia". Balkan Insight. Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN). Retrieved 3 March 2018. "We had a similar treatment [in Auschwitz] as children in the Ustasa-German camp in Sisak," said the Croatian-born Lustig. "They had doctor [Antun] Najzer [the camp's commander], we had the infamous doctor Mengele," he said.

[jadovno-4] "Logori u Sisku i Capragu" [Camps in Sisak and Caprag]. jadovno.com (in Serbian). 2 September 2014. Retrieved 3 March 2018.

[5] Ognjenović, Gorana; Jozelić, Jasna, eds. (2016). Revolutionary Totalitarianism, Pragmatic Socialism, Transition: Volume One, Tito's Yugoslavia, Stories Untold. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 75. ISBN 9781137597434.

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v t e Genocide of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia
Background	Demographics of Croatia Serbs of Croatia Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Serbs in Vojvodina
Prelude	Anti-Serb sentiment Nazi racial policy Invasion of Yugoslavia Ustaše Ustaše Militia The Holocaust in the Independent State of Croatia Greater Croatia Croatisation Persecution of Eastern Orthodox Christians Catholic clergy involvement with the Ustaše Croatian Orthodox Church
Concentration camps	Jasenovac list of prisoners Stara Gradiška Đakovo Sisak Gospić Jadovno Lepoglava Danica Lobor Kerestinec Jastrebarsko Slana Kruščica Sajmište Gornja Rijeka
Massacres	Banski Grabovac Banja Luka Garavice Glina Rašića Gaj Gudovac Blagaj Voćin Prebilovci Gacko Pridvorica Ivanci Voćin Sarajevo (Villa Luburić) Kozara Syrmia
Perpetrators	Ante Pavelić Mile Budak Julije Makanec Nikola Mandić Ademaga Mešić Džafer Kulenović Andrija Artuković Mladen Lorković Slavko Kvaternik Antun Najžer Petar Brzica Miroslav Filipović Vjekoslav Luburić Ivica Matković Ljubo Miloš Ante Vrban Ivo Rojnica Dinko Šakić Dido Kvaternik Jure Francetić Alija Šuljak Viktor Gutić Miroslav Matijević
Notable victims	Jovo Bećir Špiro Bocarić Đorđe Bogić Milan Butozan Nada Dimić Branko Dobrosavljević Vukašin Mandrapa Muhamed Mehmedbašić Rafailo Momčilović Platon of Banja Luka Sava Šumanović Sava Trlajić Dositej Vasić Petar Zimonjić
Armed resistance	Đurđevdan uprising Eastern Herzegovina uprising Drvar uprising Srb uprising
Humanitarianism	Diana Budisavljević
Trials	Trial of Mile Budak Operation Gvardijan Trial of Aloysius Stepinac
Bibliography	The Yugoslav Auschwitz and the Vatican Encyclopedia of Genocide The Catholic Church and the Holocaust, 1930–1965 Hitler–Beneš–Tito Viktor Novak Jozo Tomasevich Smilja Avramov Enver Redžić Antun Miletić Vasilije Krestić Mark Biondich Rory Yeomans Paul Mojzes Veljko Đurić Mišina Dejan Jović Hrvoje Klasić Serbian historiography
Cultural depictions	Eagles Fly Early (book, film) Black Birds The End of the War The Dagger The Diary of Diana B. Dara of Jasenovac Zaveštanje
Aftermath	Bleiburg repatriations Stone Flower Terrorism in Yugoslavia
Denial	Jasenovac – istina Far-right politics in Croatia