Međeđa is a

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

in the

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Kozarska Dubica Kozarska Dubica/Bosanska Dubica is a town and municipality in Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. As of 2013, it has a population of 21,542 inhabitants, while the town of Kozarska Dubica has a population of 11,566 inhabitants. Geography I ...

Republika Srpska Republika Srpska ( sr-Cyrl, Република Српска, ; also referred to as the Republic of Srpska or Serb Republic) is one of the two Political divisions of Bosnia and Herzegovina, entities within Bosnia and Herzegovina, the other bein ...

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. The village is mostly inhabited by

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Notable people

Philip Zepter Philip Zepter (, born Milan Janković; 23 November 1950) is a Serbian businessman and entrepreneur. He is the president of the Zepter International Group. Early years and education Philip Zepter is a Serb was born in Kozarska Dubica (in modern-d ...

, businessman *

Zoran Lončar Zoran Lončar ( sr-cyr, Зоран Лончар; born 1965) is a Serbian politician and a university professor. He served as Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government from 2004 to 2007, and as Minister of Education from 2007 ...

, politician * Savo Lončar, politician

History

World War II

A mass grave of

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victims from the

Jasenovac concentration camp Jasenovac () was a concentration camp, concentration and extermination camp established in the Jasenovac, Sisak-Moslavina County, village of the same name by the authorities of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) in occupied Yugoslavia durin ...

, most of whom were children, was located on the estate of the Lončar family in Međeđa. At the decision of the

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n government in 1956, the mass grave was backfilled to make space for

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river walls. In the villages

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, Demirovac, and Međeđa,

enjoined the young Serbian girls to "pull their skirts up, and pricked them between the legs". In 1942, Ustaše soldiers ordered inhabitants from the

Prijedor Prijedor ( sr-cyrl, Приједор, ) is a city in Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. As of 2013, it had a population of 80,916 inhabitants within its administrative limits. Prijedor is situated in the northwestern part of the Bosanska ...

canton village of Međeđa and many other neighboring villages to prepare themselves for departure within ten minutes. The 8,000 people who assembled were transported to a barbed wire-enclosed field near the railway station in

Hrvatska Dubica Hrvatska Dubica is a village and a Municipalities of Croatia, municipality in central Croatia in the Sisak-Moslavina County. It is located on the northern bank of the river Una (Sava), Una, east of Hrvatska Kostajnica and southwest of Jasenovac, ...

. There some of them were executed (by

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); the others were sent to

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s. Those who survived were, after a long time, sent to

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References

Populated places in Dubica, Bosnia and Herzegovina {{KozarskaDubica-geo-stub