Crveni krst concentration camp

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Crveni krst was a concentration camp located in the Serbian city of Niš, and it operated by the Serbian quisling government during the Second World War.

It is estimated that around 30,000 persons went through this camp, and an estimated 12,000 persons where executed on the location of Bubanj. Many of the other inmates were transferred to other camps like Sajmište concentration camp or other camps around Europe. The camp victims included the Jews, Roma, members of the Yugoslav Communist Party and their sympathisers, partisan POWs, and members of their families.

The camp operated from 1941 until the liberation of Niš by the Yugoslav Partisans in 1945.