Travel Guide Donja Gradina

Donja Gradina/Доња Градина (pronounced "donïa gradina") has about 150 inhabitants, almost all of them Bosnian-Serbs. The village belongs to the municipality of Kozarska Dubica (population 21,000), in the Bosnian Serb Republic. It is located along the border with Croatia, opposite Jasenovac (Croatia), 15 km northeast of Kozarska Dubica and 79 km northwest of Banja Luka(via Vrbaška). Three/five bus connections per day between Banja Luka and Kozarska Dubica.Donja Gradina is the northernmost settlement in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The village is located in a meander of the Sava river and at the confluence of the Una river, the two rivers that delimit the northern border of the country with Croatia. Unfortunately, Donja Gradina did not become famous for its special geographical location. During the Second World War, the site housed part of the facilities of the ill-fated Jasenovac complex, one of the largest concentration camps of the Second World War. It was mainly in the Bosnian part of the complex that the Croatian Ustasha executed about 100,000 people, especially Serbs, Jews and Roma. Today, two memorial spaces coexist on either side of the Sava River: the one in Jasenovac, Croatia, which presents the facts in a serious manner based on international scientific research, and the one in Donja Gradina, Bosnia-Herzegovina, which is now in the grip of a Serbian nationalist version of history.