Keva's pit cave ( Croatian: ''Kevina jama'') is a

pit cave A pit cave, shaft cave or vertical cave—or often simply called a pit (in the US) and pothole or pot (in the UK); jama in Slavic languages scientific and colloquial vocabulary (borrowed since early research in the Western Balkan Dinaric Alpin ...

located in the village of Radošić in the municipality of

Lećevica Lećevica is a village and a municipality in Croatia in the Split-Dalmatia County. Geography Keva's pit cave is located within the municipality of Lećevica. Demographics In the 2011 census, it had a total population of 583, in the following na ...

, part of

Split-Dalmatia County Split-Dalmatia County ( ) is a central-southern Dalmatian county in Croatia. The administrative center is Split. The population of the county is 455,242 (2011). The land area is 4.540 km2, the total area is 14.106,40 km2. Split-Dalmati ...

, Croatia. The pit cave is infamous as a site where during and after

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

, the

Yugoslav Partisans The Yugoslav Partisans,Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian language, Macedonian, and Slovene language, Slovene: , officially the National Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments of Yugoslavia sh-Latn-Cyrl, Narodnooslobodilačka vojska i partizanski odr ...

used for the disposal of bodies of thousands of local Croatian civilians that they executed. Those executed were deemed to be Axis collaborators or enemies of the Communist regime. The pit cave has a funnel form, which, at the widest part, is about 30 metres wide. In the middle of the pit cave there is carbonated "skittle" made of

limestone Limestone is a type of carbonate rock, carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material Lime (material), lime. It is composed mostly of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different Polymorphism (materials science) ...

and other materials of

karst Karst () is a topography formed from the dissolution of soluble carbonate rocks such as limestone and Dolomite (rock), dolomite. It is characterized by features like poljes above and drainage systems with sinkholes and caves underground. Ther ...

. On 22 August 2015, a

European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism The Black Ribbon Day, officially known in the European Union as the European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism and also referred to as the Europe-wide Day of Remembrance for the victims of all totalitarian and authoritarian ...

, a county commemoration for victims of all anti-fascistic and communistic crimes in Croatia, was held here.

References

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