Biography
Tanja Tuleković (b. 1980, Split) completed her secondary education at the Gymnasium in Kozarska Dubica. She earned her degree from the Department of Prehistoric Archaeology at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade (2005). She has been employed at the Public Institution "Memorial Area Donja Gradina" since 2007. She obtained the professional title of curator after passing the professional examination before the Commission of the National Museum in Belgrade (2008). She achieved the title of senior curator based on her professional work before the Commission of Parent Museums of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo (2013) and was awarded the title of museum advisor in 2023. She is responsible for studying the history of the Independent State of Croatia, the establishment of the Jasenovac Concentration Camp and its largest execution site, Donja Gradina, collecting oral testimonies from surviving witnesses, visiting execution sites in the municipality of Kozarska Dubica, and giving lectures on this topic. She is the chief editor of the professional scientific journal Topola, published by the Public Institution "Memorial Area Donja Gradina."
The Gravediggers: Witnesses to the Ustashe Crime of Genocide
Abstract: On the territory of the Independent State of Croatia, the Ustashe arrested approximately 40,000 Roma in accordance with their ideology of creating an ethnically pure state and transported them to the Jasenovac camp. This figure was cited by the State Commission of Croatia for Establishing the Crimes of the Occupiers and Their Collaborators in 1946, explaining that within a few months, the majority were liquidated regardless of gender or age. Only a very small number of physically stronger men were spared and transported to Donja Gradina, where they were assigned the task of digging mass graves for the camp inmates. This group of prisoners was named the "gravediggers" (grobari).
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