J2 HRASTINA (HR)

On 24 April 1945, just a few days before the end of the war, members of a retreating German SS unit caught 43 German Sinti who had fled to Croatia and were hiding in a village near Zagreb. Some of them were tortured and all 43 of them - men, women and children - were then killed and burned in a barn. One of the victims was Max Bamberger (see page A2).