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Ptuj Castle
Castle above Ptuj, the oldest town in Slovenia, overlooking the Drava river and a Roman-era settlement site.
53 km · about 60 min drive
Koprivnica-Križevci, Croatia · Europe
Gornja Rijeka sits on the route: 10 minutes from Visoko, 53km from Ptuj Castle.
Gornja Rijeka is a town located in Koprivnica-Križevci, Croatia. With a population of 331, it is an important destination in Europe.
On a road trip, Gornja Rijeka sits in Croatia, where you drive on the right. It's in the Europe/Zagreb time zone. Below you'll find where to stay, things to do nearby, and everything you need to add Gornja Rijeka to your route.
During World War II in Yugoslavia, when the village of Gornja Rijeka, Croatia was part of the Independent State of Croatia, it was the site of a concentration camp.
A number of women, some of them with children, were interned there between November 1941 and the spring of 1942; the camp's population was estimated asRead more
between 200 and 400 at any given time. In February 1942, Diana Budisavljević's group acted through the government and the Red Cross to save 11 children from there, and in March a group of 147 Serbian women and children were moved from Gornja Rijeka to Loborgrad concentration camp and then on to Zagreb and Zemun, and in turn to camps in Germany and Serbia. In April, the remaining Serbian women were moved to Loborgrad, and then released. This left 73 Jewish women and 7 Catholic women in Gornja Rijeka. The latter, apprehended for "Communist propaganda", were soon moved to Stara Gradiška concentration camp, while the former were moved to Loborgrad in May 1942, emptying the Gornja Rijeka site.
On 24 June 1942, around 100 boys from one of the Jasenovac concentration camp sites were transferred to the site, run by Ustaša Youth members, and then on 4 July another 200 boys and girls arrived from the Stara Gradiška concentration camp. From June 1942, the camp housed approximately 400 orphans left behind from the Kozara Offensive.
After an outbreak of typhoid fever that caused around 140 deaths among the children, the camp guards abandoned the site in August 1942, and the Croatian Red Cross activists and doctors evacuated around 200 surviving children on 14 August 1942 to Zagreb hospitals and the Jastrebarsko children's camp.
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Gornja Rijeka is located in Koprivnica-Križevci, Croatia, Europe. The coordinates are 46.1112 latitude, 16.3923 longitude.
Gornja Rijeka has a population of approximately 331 people, making it a town in Croatia.
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Castle above Ptuj, the oldest town in Slovenia, overlooking the Drava river and a Roman-era settlement site.
53 km · about 60 min drive
April to October
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